inheritance
part of speech
noun (inheritance, uncountable; an inheritance, inheritances)
meaning for a pupil
1) An inheritance is money, property or things you receive from someone who has died. tree →
2) Inheritance is the passing of features from parents to children through genes. tree →
3) Something passed down from the past: our cultural inheritance. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah it means the share of land that belongs to a family or tribe for ever, or Israel's lasting gift from God. The prophets and psalms also call the people themselves God's inheritance, and Lamentations mourns that the inheritance has passed to strangers. Interpretation: Tradition says land was divided by lot among tribes, and laws such as the daughters of Zelophehad's case keep it in the family. It reads Israel as God's own portion, and exile as the loss of the land. In the primary lessons: Science (genetic inheritance), money and law (a will, inheritance tax), stories and Bible (the prodigal son asked for his inheritance).
examples
- Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. (Torah DEU.33.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.' (Torah NUM.26.56, JPS 1917) tree →
- And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren. (Torah NUM.27.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- Return for Thy servants' sake, the tribes of Thine inheritance. (Prophets ISA.63.17, JPS 1917) tree →
- Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens. (Writings LAM.5.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance. (Prophets JOS.16.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- He spent his inheritance on a farm. tree →
- The prodigal son asked for his inheritance early. tree →
- Inheritance explains why you look like your parents. tree →
- The house was her inheritance from her uncle. tree →
- Folk songs are part of our inheritance. tree →
- The family argued over the inheritance. tree →
- His father had died, and he was lord over his whole inheritance. tree →
note
Countable or uncountable. Related: heir, heritage, inherit. In money problems, an inheritance shared equally is divided by the number of heirs.
In the corpora
- 'Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
- According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.'
- And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.
- And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren.
- We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
Trees and pragmatics
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