visitation
part of speech
noun (visitations)
meaning for a pupil
1) A visitation is a visit, especially by someone important or by a god. tree →
2) (old use) A visitation is a terrible event sent as a punishment, such as a plague. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Moses uses it to test Korah's group. If they die as all people do, they prove him wrong. The prophets use "time of visitation" for the day God judges and punishes, such as idols that will perish then. In the primary lessons: in old tales a visitation of the gods brings illness or disaster
examples
- If these men die the common death of all men, and be visited after the visitation of all men, then the LORD hath not sent Me. (Torah NUM.16.29, JPS 1917) tree →
- They are vanity, a work of delusion; in the time of their visitation they shall perish. (Prophets JER.10.15, JPS 1917) tree →
- They are vanity, a work of delusion; in the time of their visitation they shall perish, (Prophets JER.51.18, JPS 1917) tree →
- The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come, Israel shall know it. (Prophets HOS.9.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- The heroes waited for the visitation of the goddess. tree →
- The town suffered a terrible visitation of disease. tree →
- Achilles asked how to stop the visitation of the gods. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
- And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the ruin which shall come from far?
- They are vanity, a work of delusion; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
- They are vanity, a work of delusion; in the time of their visitation they shall perish,
- The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come, Israel shall know it.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «visitation» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.