seventy
part of speech
number (seventy)
meaning for a pupil
1) Seventy is the number 70, which is seven tens. tree →
2) The seventies are the numbers from 70 to 79, or a person's age from 70 to 79. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Seventy is a round number in tradition, for example the seventy nations of the world and the seventy elders; Lamech's "seventy and sevenfold" is read as boasting of far greater vengeance. In the primary lessons: Maths: a number of things, money or an age; counting in tens. Everyday: speed limits, prices, ages of grandparents.
examples
- And Kenan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalalel. (Torah GEN.5.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. (Torah GEN.4.24, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. (Torah GEN.11.26, JPS 1917) tree →
- Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. (Prophets 2KI.10.1, JPS 1917) tree →
- The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two. (Writings EZR.2.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five. (Writings EZR.2.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- A ticket costs seventy cents. tree →
- Seventy people came to the show. tree →
- Grandpa is seventy years old. tree →
- What is seventy minus twenty? tree →
- Seventy is seven tens. tree →
- The speed limit here is seventy kilometers an hour. tree →
- Grandma is in her seventies. tree →
- "We have only seventy-five pigs," said the Princess, "and with me that's seventy-six!" tree →
note
A number word; read it as 70. Seventy-one, seventy-two ... with a hyphen. Trap: do not confuse seventy (70) with seventeen (17). Not «sevendy».
In the corpora
- If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
- sImdesyat means seventy and vIsimdesyat means eighty, both stressed at the start.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «seventy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.