land
part of speech
noun (land, lands); verb (land, lands, landed, landing)
meaning for a pupil
1) Land is the ground, the part of the Earth that is not water. tree →
2) Land is an area of ground that someone owns or uses, like a farm. tree →
3) A land is a country or place: a faraway land. tree →
4) To land is to come down to the ground or water after flying or falling, like a plane or a bird. tree →
5) To land a boat is to bring it to the shore. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Usually "the land" means the land of Canaan, promised by God to Abraham and his children. Sometimes it means Egypt or another country, or the earth itself. The prophets and Joshua also speak of the land having rest after war or being cleansed. Interpretation: Jewish tradition holds the Land of Israel as a holy gift of God to the Jewish people, tied to the commandments. Some commandments, like the Sabbatical year, apply only there. "The land had rest" in Joshua and Judges is read as the peace that came when the people were faithful. In the primary lessons: In maths, an area (acres, square metres) to divide or plant; a flight ending; a coin landing on heads in probability. In science and geography, land and sea, landforms, animals that live on land. In stories, a magic land, the plane lands safely. Phrases: «on land», «dry land», «land on», «landing», «a land far away».
examples
- And the Canaanite was then in the land. (Torah GEN.12.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the famine was sore in the land. (Torah GEN.43.1, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. (Torah NUM.21.31, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thus shall they cleanse the land. (Prophets EZK.39.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the land had rest from war. (Prophets JOS.11.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the land had rest forty years. (Prophets JDG.3.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- The farmer has 40 acres of land. tree →
- He plants corn on half the land. tree →
- The plane landed after 3 hours. tree →
- The coin landed on tails 6 times. tree →
- Frogs live both on land and in water. tree →
- The bird landed on the windowsill. tree →
- Once upon a time, in a land far away, there lived a king. tree →
- After a week at sea, the sailors saw land. tree →
- The cat always lands on its feet. tree →
- What a blessed land that must be! tree →
note
As ground, land is uncountable: «a lot of land»; as a country, countable: «lands». Verb past: landed. As an area it is split by fractions or multiplied by a rate per acre. Trap: «landed» in a flight story marks the end time (take-off time + flight time).
In the corpora
- The name of the first is Pishon; that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
- and the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
- And the name of the second river is Gihon; the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush.
- And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
- all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, whatsoever was in the dry land, died.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «land» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.