foot
part of speech
noun (foot, feet); verb (foot the bill — pay)
meaning for a pupil
1) A foot is the part of your leg you stand on. tree →
2) A foot is a unit of length, about as long as a ruler; a foot is 12 inches. tree →
3) The foot of something is its bottom: «the foot of the hill». tree →
4) On foot means walking. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It includes the feet that must be washed before priestly service, and "foot for foot" in the law of damage. Interpretation: "Eye for eye" is read by tradition as meaning payment of money for the harm. Priests washed hands and feet before entering the holy place. In the primary lessons: a unit of length (feet tall, feet long), or the feet of people and animals; a foot is 12 inches and a yard is 3 feet; phrases: «on foot», «feet tall», «feet long», «at the foot of», «put your foot down» (be firm)
examples
- or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed, (Torah LEV.21.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, (Torah EXO.21.24, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat; (Torah EXO.30.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- Our feet are standing within thy gates, O Jerusalem; (Writings PSA.122.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- He subdueth peoples under us, and nations under our feet. (Writings PSA.47.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? (Writings SNG.5.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- The tree is 25 feet tall. tree →
- The fence is 40 feet long. tree →
- One foot is 12 inches. tree →
- The frog jumped 10 feet. tree →
- We go to school on foot. tree →
- A duck has webbed feet. tree →
- They camped at the foot of the mountain. tree →
- A yard is 3 feet. tree →
- Charney trembled from head to foot. tree →
note
«A foot is 12 inches.» «A yard is 3 feet.» Plural: feet (not «foots»). A unit of length, not a thing counted. Trap: feet and inches must be changed to one unit before adding or comparing. Short form: ft.
In the corpora
- Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and recline yourselves under the tree.
- And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.
- eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
- And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat;
- that Moses and Aaron and his sons might wash their hands and their feet thereat;
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «foot» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.