weigh
part of speech
verb (weigh, weighs, weighed, weighing)
meaning for a pupil
1) To weigh is to find how heavy something is, using scales. tree →
2) To weigh is to be that heavy: «The bag weighs 5 pounds». tree →
3) To weigh up is to think carefully about choices before you decide. tree →
4) To weigh anchor is to lift a ship's anchor from the sea bed so the ship can set sail. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It often means weighing out silver as payment, since coins were not yet in use. In Sefer Yetzirah God "weighed" the letters to create the world. In Daniel and Job, being "weighed in the balances" is a picture of being judged. Interpretation: In Sefer Yetzirah, weighing the letters means combining and balancing them, and the book says God made all things from them. Daniel's "Tekel" is read as God judging Belshazzar and finding him too light, and Job's wish to have his troubles weighed is a plea for fair judgment. In the primary lessons: tells a weight in pounds or kilograms; weights are added or compared; in science, objects are weighed on scales or balances; phrases «weigh up», «weigh down», «weigh in»
examples
- And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. (Torah GEN.23.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- He hath formed, weighed, transmuted, composed, and created with these twenty-two letters every living being, and every soul yet uncreated. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →
- He hath formed, weighed, and composed with these twenty-two letters every soul, and the soul of everything which shall hereafter be. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. (Writings DAN.5.27, JPS 1917) tree →
- Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances altogether! (Writings JOB.6.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. (Writings JOB.28.15, JPS 1917) tree →
- The strawberries weighed 35 pounds. tree →
- Each box weighs 4 pounds. tree →
- How much do they weigh together? tree →
- Her dad's strawberries weighed 12 pounds more. tree →
- The nurse weighed the baby. tree →
- Weigh the flour on the kitchen scales. tree →
- My backpack weighs too much. tree →
- She weighed up the two choices. tree →
- A blue whale weighs more than a bus. tree →
- The wet coat weighed him down. tree →
- No sooner were they on board than they weighed anchor and set sail. tree →
note
Marks a weight, in pounds or kilograms. «each weighs N» × count gives total weight. Trap: weight is not the number of things. «Weigh» sounds like «way». The noun is «weight».
In the corpora
- Thy heart shall muse on the terror: 'Where is he that counted, where is he that weighed?
- And I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
- Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out in the earth the violence of your hands.
- All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
- Every way of a man is right in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the hearts.
Trees and pragmatics
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