village
part of speech
noun (village, villages)
meaning for a pupil
1) A village is a small group of houses and people in the country, smaller than a town. tree →
2) The village can also mean all the people who live there. tree →
3) A «global village» means the whole world feels close because people can talk across it. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah, a village is a small unwalled settlement near a bigger town. In Joshua the villages belong to a city and are listed with it when the land is divided among the tribes. In the primary lessons: a setting; houses, people or animals in a village are counted; distances between villages; in everyday life and stories a village has a few shops, a church or a school, a green or a pub, and everyone knows everyone; in history and geography villages grow into towns and cities
examples
- And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the villages thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair. (Torah NUM.32.41, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name. (Torah NUM.32.42, JPS 1917) tree →
- these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their nations. (Torah GEN.25.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- Ekron, with its towns and its villages; (Prophets JOS.15.45, JPS 1917) tree →
- Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages. (Prophets JOS.15.57, JPS 1917) tree →
- and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages: (Prophets JOS.19.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- The village has 85 houses. tree →
- 320 people live in the village. tree →
- The next village is 7 km away. tree →
- Two villages have 150 and 230 people. tree →
- Grandma lives in a quiet village by the river. tree →
- The whole village came to the summer fair. tree →
- The village shop sells bread, milk and stamps. tree →
- In the story, a dragon flew over the sleeping village. tree →
- Many villages in the valley have fewer than 500 people. tree →
- In the village all were still asleep. tree →
note
A word of the story; the numbers are for houses, people or distances. Size order: village < town < city. People in two villages: add them. «Villager» is a person who lives in a village.
In the corpora
- And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the villages thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.
- And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
- This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and the villages thereof.
- This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and the villages thereof.
- and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon; all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «village» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.