inhabitant
part of speech
noun (an inhabitant, inhabitants)
meaning for a pupil
1) An inhabitant is a person who lives in a place, such as a town, island or country. tree →
2) An animal that lives in a particular place or habitat: the inhabitants of the pond. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A person living in a land, often one of the peoples of Canaan. In the later books it also names the people of a town or country, such as Keilah or Tyre, and even the creatures of the deep or the shades below the waters. In the primary lessons: In geography and maths: «the town has 5,000 inhabitants», «the inhabitants of the island». In science: animals that are inhabitants of a habitat. It tells the reader who lives somewhere.
examples
- The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. (Torah EXO.15.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah, (Torah GEN.36.20, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the land was defiled, therefore I did visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomited out her inhabitants. (Torah LEV.18.25, JPS 1917) tree →
- So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. (Prophets 1SA.23.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof. (Writings JOB.26.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; (Writings PSA.83.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- The village has only three hundred inhabitants. tree →
- The first inhabitants of the island were fishermen. tree →
- Frogs and newts are inhabitants of the pond. tree →
- The inhabitants of the town came out to watch the parade. tree →
- How many inhabitants does your city have? tree →
- The castle's only inhabitants now are bats. tree →
- One of the inhabitants of Novgorod was angling in the brook Chorny. tree →
note
Countable. Verb: inhabit (to live in). Trap: «inhabited» means people live there; «uninhabited» means nobody lives there; «inhabitable» and «habitable» both mean fit to live in. In maths problems, number of inhabitants = population.
In the corpora
- These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah,
- The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
- And the land was defiled, therefore I did visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
- But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
- And he went up thence against the inhabitants of Debir — now the name of Debir beforetime was Kiriath-sepher.
Trees and pragmatics
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