ripe
part of speech
adjective (ripe, riper, ripest)
meaning for a pupil
1) Ripe fruit or grain is ready to eat or pick; it is soft, sweet and has its full colour. tree →
2) Ripe can mean ready for something: «The time is ripe». tree →
3) «A ripe old age» means a very old age. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah ripe fruit is linked with the first fruits that Israel brought to God. In Job "ripe age" means full old age, and Nahum speaks of first-ripe figs that fall at a shake. Interpretation: Tradition says the first ripe fruits, called bikkurim, were brought to the Temple and given to the priests as a thank-you offering. A "ripe age" is seen as a blessing of a long and full life, like grain gathered in its season. In the primary lessons: In maths: sorts fruit into ripe and not ripe; ripe and unripe add up to the total; fractions of the fruit that are ripe. In science: fruit ripens as starch turns to sugar; bananas give off a gas that ripens other fruit. In everyday life: picking ripe fruit, checking if an avocado is ripe. In stories: «ripe golden wheat».
examples
- and in the vine were three branches; and as it was budding, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes, (Torah GEN.40.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land.' — Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes. — (Torah NUM.13.20, JPS 1917) tree →
- The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thy house may eat thereof. (Torah NUM.18.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished. (Writings JOB.30.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thou shalt come to thy grave in a ripe age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season. (Writings JOB.5.26, JPS 1917) tree →
- All thy fortresses shall be like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater. (Prophets NAM.3.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- Of 30 bananas, 18 are ripe. tree →
- How many tomatoes are not ripe? tree →
- 3/4 of the apples are ripe. tree →
- She picked only the ripe strawberries. tree →
- A ripe banana is yellow with brown spots. tree →
- Green tomatoes are not ripe yet. tree →
- Put the pears in a paper bag to help them ripen. tree →
- My great-grandpa lived to a ripe old age. tree →
- The time was ripe for a change. tree →
- ‘Oh! shake me, shake me, my apples are all quite ripe.’ tree →
note
Ripe + not ripe = all; a fraction ripe means the rest is not ripe. Trap: the question may ask about the unripe ones. Opposite: unripe. «Ripen» is the verb. Overripe means too ripe, starting to go bad. Safety: some unripe fruit can upset your stomach.
In the corpora
- Thou shalt come to thy grave in a ripe age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.
- Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished.
- And the first colour: chervOnyi, red — the colour of a football shirt, a fire engine or a ripe tomato.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «ripe» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.