foreign
part of speech
adjective (foreign, more foreign)
meaning for a pupil
1) Foreign means from or belonging to another country, not your own. tree →
2) Foreign means strange or unknown to you. tree →
3) A foreign object or body is something that is in a place where it should not be, like dirt in an eye. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The "foreign gods" are idols from other peoples. A master could not sell a Hebrew maidservant to a foreign people. Interpretation: Jacob burying the idols is read by tradition as a clean break from idol worship before going up to Bethel. The law protecting the maidservant is read as showing care for the weak. In the primary lessons: In geography and languages lessons: foreign countries, foreign languages, foreign money. In first aid: "a foreign body in the eye". In stories it shows something new or strange. Phrases: foreign language, foreign country, foreign currency, foreign object, foreign to (strange to).
examples
- And they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth which was by Shechem. (Torah GEN.35.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed; to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. (Torah EXO.21.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land? (Writings PSA.137.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any foreign god. (Writings PSA.81.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- And so did he for all his foreign wives, who offered and sacrificed unto their gods. (Prophets 1KI.11.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- French is a foreign language for me. tree →
- We changed our money into foreign currency. tree →
- He has never been to a foreign country. tree →
- The doctor took a foreign body out of her eye. tree →
- The idea of a lie-in was foreign to my dad. tree →
- Foreign visitors came to our school. tree →
- Don't put foreign objects in your ears. tree →
- The museum has coins from many foreign lands. tree →
- Ah, how delightful it is to travel into foreign lands!" tree →
note
Spelling trap: f-o-r-e-i-g-n (silent g; "ei" breaks the "i before e" rule). Person: foreigner, which can sound unkind; "visitor" or "people from other countries" is kinder.
In the corpora
- And so did he for all his foreign wives, who offered and sacrificed unto their gods.
- There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.
- How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land?
- And they were finished with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
- All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «foreign» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.