foe
part of speech
noun (plural foes)
meaning for a pupil
A foe is an enemy, someone who wants to harm or beat you. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah says the liver, gall and tongue are three "foes" in the body. Tradition reads this as the body's parts that can act against a person, such as anger and speech. In the primary lessons: in old tales and battles, the people on the other side of a fight; the opposite of a friend
examples
- Three foes: the liver and the gall and the tongue. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
- When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. (Writings PSA.27.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- But the multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away; yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly — (Prophets ISA.29.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- Do not give up friends for foes. tree →
- They snatched spears and shields from their foes. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «foe» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.