sheep
part of speech
noun (sheep, sheep)
meaning for a pupil
1) A sheep is a farm animal with a thick woolly coat. A sheep has 4 legs. tree →
2) Farmers keep sheep for wool, meat and milk. tree →
3) A person who just copies others is sometimes called a sheep. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Sheep were the main flock animals of the Israelites and the patriarchs, and also used for offerings such as the lamb. Shepherding became a sign of the patriarchs, Moses and later David. In the primary lessons: Maths: animals counted on a farm; their legs (4 each) or wool. Science and farming: a baby sheep is a lamb, a male is a ram, a female is a ewe; shearing the wool. Everyday: counting sheep to fall asleep; New Zealand and Australia have very many sheep. Stories: the boy who cried wolf, Little Bo-Peep.
examples
- Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep. (Torah GEN.31.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- Issachar is a large-boned ass, couching down between the sheep-folds. (Torah GEN.49.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran; fortified cities, and folds for sheep. (Torah NUM.32.36, JPS 1917) tree →
- The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like young sheep. (Writings PSA.114.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. (Prophets 1SA.25.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep. (Writings 2CH.29.33, JPS 1917) tree →
- A farmer has 45 sheep. tree →
- Each sheep gives 3 kg of wool. tree →
- 12 sheep are in the barn and the rest are in the field. tree →
- How many legs do 6 sheep have? tree →
- The sheepdog rounded up the sheep. tree →
- The farmer shears the sheep in spring. tree →
- When I can't sleep, I count sheep. tree →
- A lamb is a baby sheep. tree →
- "Whose sheep are these?" he asks. tree →
note
Plural is the same: one sheep, ten sheep (not «sheeps»). Animals counted; 4 legs each, so legs = sheep × 4. Trap: «sheep» is the same for one and many — look at the verb (is/are) or the number. Meat from sheep is lamb or mutton.
In the corpora
- And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
- And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and they two made a covenant.
- While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she tended them.
- Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep.
- Issachar is a large-boned ass, couching down between the sheep-folds.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «sheep» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.