intended
part of speech
verb, past form of intend (intend, intends, intended, intending); adjective
meaning for a pupil
1) Intended means planned or meant: «I intended to call you». tree →
2) Meant for a particular person or use: «The film is intended for children». tree →
3) (old-fashioned) Someone's intended is the person they plan to marry. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Translators use it to say what the text means, or what its readers probably meant, when the Hebrew can be read in more than one way. In the primary lessons: Used in stories and everyday talk about plans, and on labels («intended for ages 6+»). Phrases: «intended for», «as intended», «intended to».
examples
- What was intended was שְׁטוּחָה shetuchah, meaning ‘flat’. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
- If the sphere be rotated forward, good is implied, if in a retrograde manner evil is intended. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →
- The expression בְּלִי[]מָה beli[-]mah can be understood as either one word or two, with both readings being plausible and perhaps intended, and manuscripts commonly varying between the one- and two-word renditions. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
- For they intended evil against thee, they imagined a device, wherewith they shall not prevail. (Writings PSA.21.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- I intended to finish my homework, but I fell asleep. tree →
- This toy is intended for children over three. tree →
- The joke was not intended to hurt anyone. tree →
- The plan worked as intended. tree →
- The letter was intended for my sister. tree →
- The bridge was intended to last a long time. tree →
- I intended to get a more perfect specimen. tree →
note
Pattern: intend to + verb. Noun: intention. Labels like «not intended for children under 3» are safety warnings about small parts.
In the corpora
- For they intended evil against thee, they imagined a device, wherewith they shall not prevail.
- Joseph forgave them: "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good" (Genesis 50:20).
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «intended» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.