--- title: F — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 33 description: The 906 words of the English dictionary under F, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/page/33/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / F # F — The English dictionary · page 33 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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*Everyday, meaning 1:* One of the front feet of an animal with four legs.[↗](../../forefoot/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (sailing) The lowest front part of a ship's hull, where the keel meets the stem.[↗](../../forefoot/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The mole digs with its broad forefeet.[↗](../../forefoot/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The pony lifted one forefoot to be shod.[↗](../../forefoot/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The dog put a forefoot on my knee.[↗](../../forefoot/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A kangaroo's forefeet are small; its back feet are huge.[↗](../../forefoot/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The rabbit cleaned its face with its forefeet.[↗](../../forefoot/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The ship's forefoot cut through the water.[↗](../../forefoot/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **forefront** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* The very front part of something, the part that faces forward.[↗](../../forefront/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent.[↗](../../forefront/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.26.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../forefront/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · And thou shalt put it on a thread of blue, and it shall be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.[↗](../../forefront/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.28.37, JPS 1917)[↗](../../forefront/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · And from the forefront of the gate of the entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.[↗](../../forefront/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.40.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../forefront/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, a hundred cubits, eastward as also northward.[↗](../../forefront/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.40.19, JPS 1917)[↗](../../forefront/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · And he wrote in the letter, saying: 'Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.'[↗](../../forefront/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.11.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../forefront/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **forego** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* To go without something, or to give it up.[↗](../../forego/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") **foregoing** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* Coming just before; what has been said or written earlier.[↗](../../foregoing/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* From the foregoing it is evident that so far we have no historic document by which to prove either the authorship or the exact age of the Sefer Yetzirah.[↗](../../foregoing/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../foregoing/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") **forehead** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Your forehead is the part of your face above your eyes and below your hair.[↗](../../forehead/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Mum felt my forehead to see if I had a fever.[↗](../../forehead/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He got a bump on his forehead when he hit the door.[↗](../../forehead/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She wiped the sweat off her forehead.[↗](../../forehead/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Harry Potter has a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead.[↗](../../forehead/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad kissed me on the forehead.[↗](../../forehead/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The thermometer beeped when it touched my forehead.[↗](../../forehead/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · He wrinkled his forehead as he thought about the problem.[↗](../../forehead/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The baby has curly hair over her forehead.[↗](../../forehead/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · All had horns growing on their foreheads.[↗](../../forehead/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead-bald; yet is he clean.[↗](../../forehead/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.13.41, JPS 1917)[↗](../../forehead/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.[↗](../../forehead/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.13.42, JPS 1917)[↗](../../forehead/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Then the priest shall look upon him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague be reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh, (Torah LEV.13.43, JPS 1917)[↗](../../forehead/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.[↗](../../forehead/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.3.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../forehead/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.[↗](../../forehead/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.3.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../forehead/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead; fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.'[↗](../../forehead/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.3.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../forehead/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **foreign** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Foreign means from or belonging to another country, not your own.[↗](../../foreign/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Foreign means strange or unknown to you.[↗](../../foreign/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A foreign object or body is something that is in a place where it should not be, like dirt in an eye.[↗](../../foreign/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* French is a foreign language for me.[↗](../../foreign/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We changed our money into foreign currency.[↗](../../foreign/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He has never been to a foreign country.[↗](../../foreign/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The doctor took a foreign body out of her eye.[↗](../../foreign/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The idea of a lie-in was foreign to my dad.[↗](../../foreign/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Foreign visitors came to our school.[↗](../../foreign/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't put foreign objects in your ears.[↗](../../foreign/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The museum has coins from many foreign lands.[↗](../../foreign/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Ah, how delightful it is to travel into foreign lands!"[↗](../../foreign/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth which was by Shechem.[↗](../../foreign/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.35.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../foreign/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed; to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.[↗](../../foreign/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.21.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../foreign/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land?[↗](../../foreign/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.137.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../foreign/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.[↗](../../foreign/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.81.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../foreign/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · And so did he for all his foreign wives, who offered and sacrificed unto their gods.[↗](../../foreign/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1KI.11.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../foreign/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **foreigner** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A person from another country.[↗](../../foreigner/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The town welcomes foreigners every summer.[↗](../../foreigner/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · When I went to France, I was the foreigner.[↗](../../foreigner/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Many foreigners come to see the old castle.[↗](../../foreigner/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Some people feel like foreigners in a new country at first.[↗](../../foreigner/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The guide spoke English to the foreigners.[↗](../../foreigner/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Be kind to newcomers and foreigners.[↗](../../foreigner/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · One evening the foreigner sat in the balcony.[↗](../../foreigner/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it; but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release.[↗](../../foreigner/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.15.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../foreigner/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.[↗](../../foreigner/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.17.27, JPS 1917)[↗](../../foreigner/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner, that is not of thy seed.[↗](../../foreigner/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.17.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../foreigner/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.[↗](../../foreigner/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings NEH.9.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../foreigner/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And his master said unto him: 'We will not turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.'[↗](../../foreigner/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JDG.19.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../foreigner/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite: 'Wherefore goest thou also with us? return, and abide with the king; for thou art a foreigner, and also an exile from thine own place.[↗](../../foreigner/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.15.19, JPS 1917)[↗](../../foreigner/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **foreleg** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* One of the two front legs of an animal such as a horse, dog or cow.[↗](../../foreleg/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The horse kicked out with its foreleg.[↗](../../foreleg/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The dog rested its foreleg on my knee.[↗](../../foreleg/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The cow had mud on each foreleg.[↗](../../foreleg/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **forelimb** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (science) One of the front legs of an animal with four legs, or the wing or arm that is in the same place, such as a bird's wing or a person's arm.[↗](../../forelimb/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A bat's wing is its forelimb.[↗](../../forelimb/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A mole uses its strong forelimbs to dig.[↗](../../forelimb/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The kangaroo's forelimbs are short.[↗](../../forelimb/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Whales have flippers instead of forelimbs with fingers.[↗](../../forelimb/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · T. rex had tiny forelimbs.[↗](../../forelimb/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Human arms are forelimbs.[↗](../../forelimb/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **forelock** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A forelock is a lock (bunch) of hair that grows just above the forehead, on a person or a horse.[↗](../../forelock/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* «To tug your forelock» (UK, old) means to show too much respect to someone rich or powerful, as servants once did.[↗](../../forelock/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She brushed her pony's forelock.[↗](../../forelock/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A long forelock fell over his eyes.[↗](../../forelock/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The horse's forelock blew in the wind.[↗](../../forelock/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In old times, farm workers tugged their forelocks to the squire.[↗](../../forelock/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Plait the forelock before the show.[↗](../../forelock/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · His forelock was always messy.[↗](../../forelock/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The prince advanced and saluted it; it proudly drooped its head and forelocks and paced to the platform.[↗](../../forelock/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **foreman** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A worker in charge of a group of workers, for example on a building site or in a factory.[↗](../../foreman/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (law) The person who speaks for a jury in court.[↗](../../foreman/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The foreman told the builders where to start.[↗](../../foreman/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My uncle is a foreman at the factory.[↗](../../foreman/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The foreman checked everyone was wearing a hard hat.[↗](../../foreman/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The jury foreman stood up to give the verdict.[↗](../../foreman/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Ask the foreman before you go on site.[↗](../../foreman/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The foreman counted the workers each morning.[↗](../../foreman/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **foremost** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* First in place, rank or order; the one at the front.[↗](../../foremost/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The foremost runner crossed the line.[↗](../../foremost/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The foremost buffalo charged at the river.[↗](../../foremost/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The grasshopper went foremost with his cousin behind.[↗](../../foremost/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.[↗](../../foremost/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.33.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../foremost/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · And he commanded the foremost, saying: 'When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying: Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?[↗](../../foremost/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.32.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../foremost/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · And the watchman said: 'I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.'[↗](../../foremost/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") And the king said: 'He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.'[↗](../../foremost/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.18.27, JPS 1917)[↗](../../foremost/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **forenoon** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (old-fashioned, formal) The morning; the time before midday.[↗](../../forenoon/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We sailed in the forenoon and landed after lunch.[↗](../../forenoon/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The meeting is in the forenoon.[↗](../../forenoon/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · In the old diary, the farmer worked all forenoon in the fields.[↗](../../forenoon/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The ship's forenoon watch begins at 8 o'clock.[↗](../../forenoon/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · By the end of the forenoon the snow had stopped.[↗](../../forenoon/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Forenoon is an old word for morning.[↗](../../forenoon/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · "Don't go talking nonsense, Mashka; as if suitors\[282\] generally turned up in the forenoon.[↗](../../forenoon/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **forepart** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* The front part of something.[↗](../../forepart/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, in the forepart thereof.[↗](../../forepart/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.39.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../forepart/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, in the forepart thereof.[↗](../../forepart/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.28.25, JPS 1917)[↗](../../forepart/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the forepart thereof, close by the coupling thereof, above the skilfully woven band of the ephod.[↗](../../forepart/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.39.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../forepart/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **forepaw** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A front foot (paw) of an animal that has paws, such as a dog, cat, bear or squirrel.[↗](../../forepaw/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The squirrel held the nut in its forepaws.[↗](../../forepaw/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The dog raised one forepaw to shake hands.[↗](../../forepaw/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Badgers dig with their strong forepaws.[↗](../../forepaw/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The kitten licked its forepaw clean.[↗](../../forepaw/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The bear's forepaw left a big print in the mud.[↗](../../forepaw/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · They certainly set off his paws wonderfully, and he stretched out his forepaws and looked at them with pride.[↗](../../forepaw/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **forerunner** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A forerunner is a person or thing that came before another and led the way for it: «The abacus was a forerunner of the calculator».[↗](../../forerunner/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A forerunner can be a sign that something is about to happen.[↗](../../forerunner/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The abacus was a forerunner of the calculator.[↗](../../forerunner/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The gramophone was a forerunner of today's music players.[↗](../../forerunner/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Christians call John the Baptist the forerunner of Jesus.[↗](../../forerunner/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Dark clouds are often the forerunner of a storm.[↗](../../forerunner/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · This early plane was a forerunner of the jumbo jet.[↗](../../forerunner/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The Romans' roads were forerunners of modern motorways.[↗](../../forerunner/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **foresail** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The main sail on the front mast of a ship.[↗](../../foresail/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* On a small sailing boat, the sail in front of the mast, such as a jib.[↗](../../foresail/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The sailors hoisted the foresail as the wind rose.[↗](../../foresail/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The foresail filled with wind and the boat leapt forward.[↗](../../foresail/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · In a storm they took down the foresail.[↗](../../foresail/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The Sea Rat told of ships with patched foresails sailing south.[↗](../../foresail/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Our dinghy has a mainsail and a small foresail.[↗](../../foresail/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Pull the rope to tighten the foresail.[↗](../../foresail/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **foresee** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To foresee something is to know or guess that it will happen before it does.[↗](../../foresee/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Nobody could foresee the storm.[↗](../../foresee/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Do you foresee any problems with the plan?[↗](../../foresee/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The teacher foresaw that the trip would be muddy and told us to bring boots.[↗](../../foresee/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In the story, the witch foresaw the king's fall.[↗](../../foresee/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We couldn't have foreseen the road being closed.[↗](../../foresee/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Good planners foresee what might go wrong.[↗](../../foresee/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · “Oh! no, do not go, for if you go home to the King’s palace you will forget me, I foresee that.”[↗](../../foresee/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **foreshore** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The part of a beach between the high-tide line and the low-tide line, covered by the sea at high tide.[↗](../../foreshore/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The land along the edge of a sea, lake or river.[↗](../../foreshore/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* At low tide we explored the rock pools on the foreshore.[↗](../../foreshore/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The foreshore is covered by the sea twice a day.[↗](../../foreshore/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Check the tide times before walking on the foreshore.[↗](../../foreshore/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The Thames foreshore in London is full of old clay pipes and pottery.[↗](../../foreshore/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We had a picnic on the foreshore at Darwin.[↗](../../foreshore/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Crabs scuttled across the wet foreshore.[↗](../../foreshore/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **foreskin** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* The loose skin at the tip of the male body part that is cut off in circumcision.[↗](../../foreskin/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.[↗](../../foreskin/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.10.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../foreskin/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.[↗](../../foreskin/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.12.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../foreskin/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.[↗](../../foreskin/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.17.24, JPS 1917)[↗](../../foreskin/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · And David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth Saul's son, saying: 'Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.'[↗](../../foreskin/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.3.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../foreskin/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · and David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law.[↗](../../foreskin/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1SA.18.27, JPS 1917)[↗](../../foreskin/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/) … [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/page/32/) **33** [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/page/34/) … [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/page/49/) - ← previous: [page 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/page/32/) - next →: [page 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/page/34/) - ↑ back to [The 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