innumerable
part of speech
adjective (innumerable, no comparative)
meaning for a pupil
Too many to count. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Tradition sees countless things, such as sea creatures, as a sign of how great God's creation is, and of God's promise of countless descendants to Abraham. In the primary lessons: a huge crowd, a sky full of stars or an army of small creatures
examples
- Yonder sea, great and wide, therein are creeping things innumerable, living creatures, both small and great. (Writings PSA.104.25, JPS 1917) tree →
- The clods of the valley are sweet unto him, and all men draw after him, as there were innumerable before him. (Writings JOB.21.33, JPS 1917) tree →
- They cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable. (Prophets JER.46.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- There were innumerable stars in the sky. tree →
- The ants made innumerable tiny paths. tree →
- The toys were innumerable. tree →
note
«innumerable» gives no exact number, so it cannot be used in a count or a sum; a problem that uses it needs a real number from somewhere else
In the corpora
- Yonder sea, great and wide, therein are creeping things innumerable, living creatures, both small and great.
- The clods of the valley are sweet unto him, and all men draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
Trees and pragmatics
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