heavy
part of speech
adjective (heavy, heavier, heaviest); adverb (heavily)
meaning for a pupil
1) Heavy means weighing a lot and hard to lift. tree →
2) Heavy means a lot of, or strong: heavy rain, heavy traffic. tree →
3) A heavy meal is one that makes you feel full. tree →
4) Heavy can mean sad or serious: «a heavy heart». tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Too hard to carry, as a task or a duty. In Job and Lamentations it also means painful or sad: a "heavy" hand, or a "heavy" chain that shows suffering and being trapped. Interpretation: Moses and Jethro both say the work of judging the people is too heavy for one man. This leads to Moses choosing helpers to share the load. The tradition reads the heavy hand and chain in Job and Lamentations as pictures of pain that make a person cry out to God. In the primary lessons: compares weights: heavier by how much, which is heaviest; in science: heavy things are not always big (a small stone can be heavier than a big balloon); in safety: bend your knees to lift something heavy, ask an adult; in weather: heavy rain or snow; phrases: «heavy rain», «heavy traffic», «heavy heart»
examples
- I am not able to bear all this people myself alone, because it is too heavy for me. (Torah NUM.11.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee; for the thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone. (Torah EXO.18.18, JPS 1917) tree →
- Even to-day is my complaint bitter; my hand is become heavy because of my groaning. (Writings JOB.23.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my pressure be heavy upon thee. (Writings JOB.33.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- He hath hedged me about, that I cannot go forth; He hath made my chain heavy. (Writings LAM.3.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- The box is 3 kg heavier than the bag. tree →
- Which is the heaviest? tree →
- A heavy bag weighs 12 kg. tree →
- How much heavier is the dog? tree →
- This box is too heavy for me to lift. tree →
- Heavy rain flooded the road. tree →
- There was heavy traffic on the way to school. tree →
- Bend your knees when you lift something heavy. tree →
- She left her old school with a heavy heart. tree →
note
«Heavier by» means add; «how much heavier» means subtract. Trap: a kilogram of feathers weighs the same as a kilogram of bricks. Opposite: light. Units: grams and kilograms, pounds and ounces.
In the corpora
- Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard lying words.'
- I am not able to bear all this people myself alone, because it is too heavy for me.
- And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall not be light, but heavy clouds and thick;
- For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me; my sap was turned as in the droughts of summer.
- For mine iniquities are gone over my head; as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «heavy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.