powerful

«powerful» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Very strong; having a lot of strength or force — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (powerful, more powerful, most powerful)

meaning for a pupil

1) Very strong; having a lot of strength or force. tree →

2) Having great control or influence over people: a powerful king. tree →

3) Having a strong effect: a powerful medicine, a powerful speech. tree →

4) (of machines) Able to do a lot of work: a powerful engine. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: "The voice of the LORD is powerful" praises God's voice that shakes the world, in the psalm about a thunderstorm. Interpretation: This psalm is sung on Shabbat. Tradition says God's voice at Sinai was heard with great power. In the primary lessons: In science lessons, powerful magnets, engines and storms. In history and stories, powerful rulers and wizards. In writing lessons, a powerful sentence moves the reader. Phrases: powerful enough, a powerful voice.

examples

• The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty. (Writings PSA.29.4, JPS 1917) tree →
• The lion has powerful jaws. tree →
• The king was the most powerful man in the land. tree →
• That was a powerful speech; some people cried. tree →
• A powerful storm knocked down trees. tree →
• This magnet is more powerful than that one. tree →
• The wizard cast a powerful spell. tree →
• "That was a powerful speech," thought the little Toad. tree →

note

Comparative: more powerful, most powerful. Adverb: powerfully. Opposite: weak, powerless. Noun: power. In maths and physics, «power» also means the rate of doing work, and 2 to the power 3 means 2 × 2 × 2.

In the corpora

• The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
• Some worries are big too, and many clever people are working to make powerful AI safe.
• Whether such paintings are great art is argued: some say they are powerful in real life, others say they are a joke.
• Zebras defend themselves with powerful kicks and bites that can badly injure a lion, and they have never been tamed like horses.
• Cave hyenas cracked bones with powerful jaws and dragged them to their dens, which scientists find by gnawed bones and fossil droppings.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «powerful» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.