--- title: I — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 21 description: The 831 words of the English dictionary under I, 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/I/page/21/) [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/) / I # I — The English dictionary · page 21 [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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[39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/I/page/39/) **infusion** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A drink made by soaking leaves, flowers or fruit in hot water, like herbal tea.[↗](../../infusion/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (medicine) Putting a liquid such as medicine or fluid slowly into a vein through a tube (a drip).[↗](../../infusion/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Adding something new that brings energy or change: an infusion of money, an infusion of new ideas.[↗](../../infusion/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Grandma drinks a camomile infusion before bed.[↗](../../infusion/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We made an infusion of red cabbage to test acids and alkalis.[↗](../../infusion/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The nurse gave him an infusion of fluids through a drip.[↗](../../infusion/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The new players gave the team an infusion of energy.[↗](../../infusion/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A mint infusion is made by steeping leaves in hot water.[↗](../../infusion/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The school got an infusion of money to fix the roof.[↗](../../infusion/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **ingathering** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* (old use) The ingathering is the gathering in of the crops at harvest time.[↗](../../ingathering/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the turn of the year.[↗](../../ingathering/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.34.22, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ingathering/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours, which thou sowest in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field.[↗](../../ingathering/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.23.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ingathering/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · After a year and days shall ye be troubled, ye confident women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come.[↗](../../ingathering/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.32.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ingathering/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The farmers held a feast after the ingathering.[↗](../../ingathering/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The ingathering of the wheat took all week.[↗](../../ingathering/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Everyone helped with the ingathering of the apples.[↗](../../ingathering/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The festival came after the ingathering.[↗](../../ingathering/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **ingenious** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Very clever and inventive, especially at finding new ways to solve problems.[↗](../../ingenious/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (of an idea or machine) Cleverly planned and made.[↗](../../ingenious/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* What an ingenious way to fix the bike\![↗](../../ingenious/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Tegumai and Taffy found an ingenious way to write sounds.[↗](../../ingenious/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The robot was an ingenious invention.[↗](../../ingenious/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She built an ingenious trap to catch the sweet thief.[↗](../../ingenious/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The escape plan was ingenious.[↗](../../ingenious/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Leonardo da Vinci drew many ingenious machines.[↗](../../ingenious/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Benfey's suggestion is certainly ingenious, but perhaps too ingenious to be true.[↗](../../ingenious/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **ingeniously** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* In a clever way, using a smart idea that few others would think of.[↗](../../ingeniously/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The fox ingeniously tricked the crow.[↗](../../ingeniously/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She ingeniously built a raft from old barrels.[↗](../../ingeniously/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He ingeniously hid the key where no one would look.[↗](../../ingeniously/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **ingenuity** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Ingenuity is being clever and inventive, so you find new and smart ways to solve problems.[↗](../../ingenuity/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (a name) Ingenuity was also the name of a small helicopter flown on Mars.[↗](../../ingenuity/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The team showed great ingenuity in building a bridge out of paper.[↗](../../ingenuity/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · With a bit of ingenuity, we fixed the bike with string.[↗](../../ingenuity/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Robinson Crusoe survived by ingenuity.[↗](../../ingenuity/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Engineers use ingenuity to solve problems.[↗](../../ingenuity/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Human ingenuity put people on the Moon.[↗](../../ingenuity/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Her ingenuity amazed the judges.[↗](../../ingenuity/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The Ingenuity helicopter flew on Mars.[↗](../../ingenuity/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Use your ingenuity to escape the puzzle room.[↗](../../ingenuity/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Now, most people throw them away, and that only shows what a number of things are wasted for want of a little patience and ingenuity.’[↗](../../ingenuity/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **ingest** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (formal) To ingest is to take food, drink, medicine or another substance into your body by swallowing it.[↗](../../ingest/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (formal) To ingest information is to take it in and absorb it.[↗](../../ingest/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Bleach is harmful if ingested.[↗](../../ingest/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Animals ingest food through their mouths.[↗](../../ingest/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The dog ingested a sock and had to see the vet.[↗](../../ingest/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · If a child ingests a battery, go to hospital straight away.[↗](../../ingest/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Whales ingest tiny plastic bits from the sea.[↗](../../ingest/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Plants do not ingest food; they make it from sunlight.[↗](../../ingest/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **ingestion** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (formal, science) Taking food, drink or another substance into the body through the mouth.[↗](../../ingestion/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Ingestion is the first step of digestion.[↗](../../ingestion/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The label warns «Harmful by ingestion».[↗](../../ingestion/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Accidental ingestion of button batteries is very dangerous.[↗](../../ingestion/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Animals take in food by ingestion.[↗](../../ingestion/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Ingestion of seawater can make you ill.[↗](../../ingestion/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Keep cleaning products away from toddlers to prevent ingestion.[↗](../../ingestion/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **ingratitude** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Not being thankful for what someone has done for you.[↗](../../ingratitude/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Ingratitude sometimes brings its own punishment.[↗](../../ingratitude/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He showed ingratitude when he forgot his friend's help.[↗](../../ingratitude/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The goatherd was angry at their ingratitude.[↗](../../ingratitude/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **ingredient** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* An ingredient is one of the foods or things that are mixed together to make a dish, like flour and eggs in a cake.[↗](../../ingredient/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* An ingredient is one of the parts or qualities that make something happen or succeed (the ingredients of a good story).[↗](../../ingredient/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Flour, sugar, eggs and butter are the ingredients of the cake.[↗](../../ingredient/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Read the list of ingredients to check for nuts.[↗](../../ingredient/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The secret ingredient in Grandma's soup is a pinch of ginger.[↗](../../ingredient/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We weighed all the ingredients before baking.[↗](../../ingredient/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The recipe needs 200 grams of flour, so for a double batch we need 400 grams.[↗](../../ingredient/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Kindness is an important ingredient of friendship.[↗](../../ingredient/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The main ingredient on the label comes first.[↗](../../ingredient/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **ingress** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (formal) The act of going in, or the right to go in: a way in.[↗](../../ingress/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (technical) The getting in of water, dust or air where it should not be: water ingress.[↗](../../ingress/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The door is the only point of ingress.[↗](../../ingress/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The phone is protected against water ingress.[↗](../../ingress/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Ingress and egress mean entry and exit.[↗](../../ingress/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Damp walls are often caused by water ingress.[↗](../../ingress/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The castle had a narrow ingress guarded by soldiers.[↗](../../ingress/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The rules allow ingress only with a pass.[↗](../../ingress/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **ingrown** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (of a toenail or hair) Grown into the skin instead of out of it, which can hurt and become infected.[↗](../../ingrown/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I have an ingrown toenail, and it hurts.[↗](../../ingrown/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Cut your toenails straight across to stop them becoming ingrown.[↗](../../ingrown/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Tight shoes can cause ingrown toenails.[↗](../../ingrown/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The doctor treated my ingrown toenail.[↗](../../ingrown/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · An ingrown hair made a small red bump.[↗](../../ingrown/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Soaking an ingrown toenail in warm water helps.[↗](../../ingrown/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **inhabit** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To inhabit a place means to live in it: «polar bears inhabit the Arctic».[↗](../../inhabit/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (formal) To inhabit can also mean to be present in something: «strange creatures inhabit her stories».[↗](../../inhabit/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Penguins inhabit the cold seas of the southern hemisphere.[↗](../../inhabit/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Which animals inhabit a pond?[↗](../../inhabit/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · People have inhabited this valley for thousands of years.[↗](../../inhabit/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The island is not inhabited.[↗](../../inhabit/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Bats inhabit the old church tower.[↗](../../inhabit/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The town has twenty thousand inhabitants.[↗](../../inhabit/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Many creatures inhabit the deep ocean.[↗](../../inhabit/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The BIRCH NYMPH is a melancholy maiden with floating hair, resembling the branches of the pale and fragile-looking tree which she inhabits.[↗](../../inhabit/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And thou shalt not defile the land which ye inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell; for I the LORD dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.'[↗](../../inhabit/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.35.34, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inhabit/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The righteous shall never be moved; but the wicked shall not inhabit the land.[↗](../../inhabit/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.10.30, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inhabit/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, Thou gavest him to be food to the folk inhabiting the wilderness.[↗](../../inhabit/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.74.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inhabit/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.[↗](../../inhabit/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.65.21, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inhabit/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **inhabitant** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* An inhabitant is a person who lives in a place, such as a town, island or country.[↗](../../inhabitant/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* An animal that lives in a particular place or habitat: the inhabitants of the pond.[↗](../../inhabitant/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The village has only three hundred inhabitants.[↗](../../inhabitant/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The first inhabitants of the island were fishermen.[↗](../../inhabitant/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Frogs and newts are inhabitants of the pond.[↗](../../inhabitant/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The inhabitants of the town came out to watch the parade.[↗](../../inhabitant/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · How many inhabitants does your city have?[↗](../../inhabitant/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The castle's only inhabitants now are bats.[↗](../../inhabitant/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · One of the inhabitants of Novgorod was angling in the brook Chorny.[↗](../../inhabitant/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.[↗](../../inhabitant/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.15.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inhabitant/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah, (Torah GEN.36.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inhabitant/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And the land was defiled, therefore I did visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.[↗](../../inhabitant/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.18.25, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inhabitant/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.[↗](../../inhabitant/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1SA.23.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inhabitant/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.[↗](../../inhabitant/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.26.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inhabitant/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; (Writings PSA.83.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inhabitant/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **inhabited** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Having people or animals living in it.[↗](../../inhabited/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (verb, past) Lived in a place, as in «Dinosaurs inhabited the land».[↗](../../inhabited/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Only three of the islands are inhabited.[↗](../../inhabited/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Is the old house still inhabited?[↗](../../inhabited/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Dinosaurs inhabited the Earth long ago.[↗](../../inhabited/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Penguins inhabit cold southern seas.[↗](../../inhabited/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Scientists search for other inhabited planets.[↗](../../inhabited/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The cave was inhabited by bats.[↗](../../inhabited/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · It was inhabited, for the smoke curled up thickly from the chimneys.[↗](../../inhabited/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.[↗](../../inhabited/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.16.35, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inhabited/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · But Judah shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.[↗](../../inhabited/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JOL.4.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inhabited/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they smote the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it.[↗](../../inhabited/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JDG.1.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inhabited/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Be thou corrected, O Jerusalem, lest My soul be alienated from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.[↗](../../inhabited/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.6.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inhabited/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") **inhalation** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Breathing air, smoke or medicine into your lungs.[↗](../../inhalation/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A medicine or steam you breathe in.[↗](../../inhalation/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Inhalation fills your lungs with air.[↗](../../inhalation/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Smoke inhalation is very dangerous in a fire.[↗](../../inhalation/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Asthma medicine is taken by inhalation.[↗](../../inhalation/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Take a deep inhalation and hold it.[↗](../../inhalation/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · During inhalation, your chest gets bigger.[↗](../../inhalation/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Steam inhalation can help a blocked nose.[↗](../../inhalation/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **inhale** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To breathe air or another gas into your lungs.[↗](../../inhale/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To take in smoke, dust or a medicine by breathing it in.[↗](../../inhale/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (informal) To eat something very fast, as if breathing it in.[↗](../../inhale/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Inhale slowly through your nose, then breathe out.[↗](../../inhale/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · When you inhale, your chest gets bigger.[↗](../../inhale/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Never inhale fumes from paint or glue.[↗](../../inhale/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Stay low in a fire so you do not inhale smoke.[↗](../../inhale/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She used her inhaler to inhale her medicine.[↗](../../inhale/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.[↗](../../inhale/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · My brother inhaled his pizza in two minutes (informal).[↗](../../inhale/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Bright and joyous were his feelings as he stepped lightly onwards, inhaling the invigorating mountain air.[↗](../../inhale/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **inhaler** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A small device you put in your mouth and press to breathe a medicine into your lungs, used mostly for asthma.[↗](../../inhaler/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Jamie takes his inhaler on every school trip.[↗](../../inhaler/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · When she started wheezing, she used her blue inhaler.[↗](../../inhaler/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Shake the inhaler and breathe in slowly.[↗](../../inhaler/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Our teacher keeps spare inhalers in the office.[↗](../../inhaler/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A spacer helps the medicine from the inhaler reach the lungs.[↗](../../inhaler/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He uses a brown inhaler every morning to prevent attacks.[↗](../../inhaler/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · If an inhaler doesn't help, call for help straight away.[↗](../../inhaler/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Never use someone else's inhaler.[↗](../../inhaler/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **inherent** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (formal) Being a natural, basic part of something, so it cannot be taken away: an inherent danger, an inherent quality.[↗](../../inherent/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* There is an inherent danger in playing near deep water.[↗](../../inherent/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Curiosity is inherent in young children.[↗](../../inherent/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Every sport has some inherent risk.[↗](../../inherent/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Kindness seemed inherent in her nature.[↗](../../inherent/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Glass is inherently fragile.[↗](../../inherent/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The plan had an inherent problem: it cost too much.[↗](../../inherent/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **inherently** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* As a basic, natural part of something that cannot be removed; by its very nature.[↗](../../inherently/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (formal) In itself, not because of something added from outside: inherently dangerous.[↗](../../inherently/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Fire is inherently dangerous, so treat it with care.[↗](../../inherently/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Climbing is inherently risky, which is why we use ropes.[↗](../../inherently/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Nobody is inherently bad; people can learn and change.[↗](../../inherently/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Some games are inherently unfair because of their rules.[↗](../../inherently/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Mistakes aren't inherently bad; they help us learn.[↗](../../inherently/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Glass is inherently fragile.[↗](../../inherently/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **inherit** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To inherit money, a house or things is to receive them from someone after they die.[↗](../../inherit/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To inherit a feature is to get it from your parents through your genes: inherit blue eyes.[↗](../../inherit/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To inherit a problem or job is to take it over from someone before you.[↗](../../inherit/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She inherited her grandmother's ring.[↗](../../inherit/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I inherited my dad's curly hair.[↗](../../inherit/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Children inherit genes from both parents.[↗](../../inherit/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In the story, the miller's son inherited only a cat.[↗](../../inherit/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The new coach inherited a losing team.[↗](../../inherit/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.[↗](../../inherit/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · My father is old, and if he dies I shall inherit his goods.’[↗](../../inherit/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And he said: 'O Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?'[↗](../../inherit/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.15.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inherit/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.[↗](../../inherit/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.23.30, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inherit/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Justice, justice shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.[↗](../../inherit/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.16.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inherit/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.[↗](../../inherit/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.37.29, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inherit/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · His soul shall abide in prosperity; and his seed shall inherit the land.[↗](../../inherit/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.25.13, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inherit/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · The wise shall inherit honour; but as for the fools, they carry away shame.[↗](../../inherit/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.3.35, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inherit/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **inheritance** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* An inheritance is money, property or things you receive from someone who has died.[↗](../../inheritance/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Inheritance is the passing of features from parents to children through genes.[↗](../../inheritance/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Something passed down from the past: our cultural inheritance.[↗](../../inheritance/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* He spent his inheritance on a farm.[↗](../../inheritance/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The prodigal son asked for his inheritance early.[↗](../../inheritance/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Inheritance explains why you look like your parents.[↗](../../inheritance/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The house was her inheritance from her uncle.[↗](../../inheritance/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Folk songs are part of our inheritance.[↗](../../inheritance/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The family argued over the inheritance.[↗](../../inheritance/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · His father had died, and he was lord over his whole inheritance.[↗](../../inheritance/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.[↗](../../inheritance/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.33.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inheritance/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.'[↗](../../inheritance/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.26.56, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inheritance/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.[↗](../../inheritance/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.27.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inheritance/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Return for Thy servants' sake, the tribes of Thine inheritance.[↗](../../inheritance/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.63.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inheritance/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens.[↗](../../inheritance/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings LAM.5.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inheritance/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.[↗](../../inheritance/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JOS.16.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../inheritance/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/I/) … [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/I/page/20/) **21** [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/I/page/22/) … 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