region

«region» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a large area of land or of a country, with its own… — 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

noun (a region, regions)

meaning for a pupil

1) A region is a large area of land or of a country, with its own features, such as a type of weather, plants or people. tree →

2) A part of the body: the lower back region. tree →

3) In maths, an area or space on a diagram, for example the parts of a Venn diagram. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah it is a named district, such as the region of Argob in Bashan. Interpretation: The land east of the Jordan was given to Reuben, Gad and half of Manasseh. In the primary lessons: Used in geography lessons: polar regions, desert regions, regions of a country. In maths: sorting numbers into regions of a Venn or Carroll diagram. Phrase: "in the region of" means "about" (in the region of 100 = about 100).

examples

• And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them; threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. (Torah DEU.3.4, JPS 1917) tree →
• and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob — all that Bashan is called the land of Rephaim. (Torah DEU.3.13, JPS 1917) tree →
• Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, unto this day. — (Torah DEU.3.14, JPS 1917) tree →
• This is the land that yet remaineth: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites; (Prophets JOS.13.2, JPS 1917) tree →
• the king of Dor in the region of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in the Gilgal, one; (Prophets JOS.12.23, JPS 1917) tree →
• the son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife; (Prophets 1KI.4.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• The Arctic is a cold region. tree →
• Wine is made in this region of France. tree →
• Which region of the country do you live in? tree →
• Put the number in the correct region of the Venn diagram. tree →
• The cost will be in the region of fifty pounds. tree →
• Rainforests grow in tropical regions. tree →
• He felt pain in his stomach region. tree →
• The region round the little town of Kjoge is very bleak and cold. tree →

note

Countable. Adjective: regional. "In the region of" = approximately, important in estimates.

In the corpora

• the king of Dor in the region of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in the Gilgal, one;
• This is the land that yet remaineth: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;
• the son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife;
• Marmots almost vanished when most steppe was ploughed and came back in reserves in the Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.
• Under the Mughals India was one of the richest regions in the world, famous for its cotton cloth.

Trees and pragmatics

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