seventh
part of speech
adjective, noun (seventh, sevenths)
meaning for a pupil
1) Seventh means number 7 in order, after the sixth. tree →
2) A seventh is one of seven equal parts of a whole, written 1/7. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The seventh day is the Sabbath, the day of rest, and the seventh year and seventh month also have special holiness. Interpretation: Tradition says God blessed and made holy the seventh day, and Jews keep it as a day of rest from Friday evening to Saturday night. In the primary lessons: Maths: an order word (7th day, 7th grade) or a fraction: a seventh of 28 is 4. Everyday: seventh grade, the seventh floor, «in seventh heaven» means very happy.
examples
- So the people rested on the seventh day. (Torah EXO.16.30, JPS 1917) tree →
- On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim: (Torah NUM.7.48, JPS 1917) tree →
- And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs of the first year without blemish; (Torah NUM.29.32, JPS 1917) tree →
- Ozem the sixth, David the seventh. (Writings 1CH.2.15, JPS 1917) tree →
- Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh; (Writings 1CH.12.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah; (Writings 1CH.24.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- She is in the seventh grade. tree →
- On the seventh day he rested. tree →
- A seventh of 28 is 4. tree →
- Two sevenths of the class are boys. tree →
- Our flat is on the seventh floor. tree →
- He finished seventh out of twenty runners. tree →
- When she got the puppy she was in seventh heaven. tree →
- "I, too, will try a seventh time!" cried Bruce. tree →
note
Written 7th. As order it points to an item; as a fraction it means divide by 7: a seventh of n = n ÷ 7. Trap: «seventh» order is not «seven» things. Plural «sevenths» is for fractions.
In the corpora
- And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
- Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
- Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.'
- So the people rested on the seventh day.
- If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «seventh» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.