--- title: S — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 57 description: The 2316 words of the English dictionary under S, 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/S/page/57/) [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/) / S # S — The English dictionary · page 57 [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:* Slime is a thick, wet, slippery substance, like the trail a snail leaves.[↗](../../slime/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Slime is also a stretchy toy goo that children make from glue and other things.[↗](../../slime/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The snail left a trail of slime on the path.[↗](../../slime/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We made slime in science class.[↗](../../slime/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My slime is purple and sparkly.[↗](../../slime/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The pond rocks were covered in green slime.[↗](../../slime/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Slugs use slime to help them slide.[↗](../../slime/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't leave slime on the carpet\![↗](../../slime/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Fish have a thin layer of slime on their skin.[↗](../../slime/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Great black bubbles rose up out of the moor-slime, and with these every trace of the two vanished.[↗](../../slime/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And they said one to another: 'Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.'[↗](../../slime/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.[↗](../../slime/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.11.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../slime/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that remained fled to the mountain.[↗](../../slime/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.14.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../slime/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.[↗](../../slime/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.2.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../slime/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") **slimy** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Covered with slime: thick, wet, slippery stuff, like on a snail or a slug.[↗](../../slimy/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Of a person: too friendly in a false way to get what they want (informal).[↗](../../slimy/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The slug left a slimy trail.[↗](../../slimy/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Be careful, the rocks are slimy and slippery.[↗](../../slimy/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Frogs feel cool and slimy.[↗](../../slimy/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The old lettuce had gone slimy.[↗](../../slimy/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Seaweed is slimy when it is wet.[↗](../../slimy/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In the story, the slimy salesman lied to everyone.[↗](../../slimy/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Fish are slimy to touch.[↗](../../slimy/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The branches were long slimy arms, with fingers like flexible worms, moving limb after limb from the root to the top.[↗](../../slimy/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **sling** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A sling is a loop of cord or strap for throwing a stone by swinging it round the head.[↗](../../sling/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A sling is a band of cloth that holds an injured arm against the body.[↗](../../sling/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To sling is to throw or hang something loosely, often over the shoulder.[↗](../../sling/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Pivi and Kabo made slings and practised with them.[↗](../../sling/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The nurse put his arm in a sling.[↗](../../sling/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Boys are good with slings, said Confro.[↗](../../sling/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She slung the bag over her shoulder.[↗](../../sling/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · All this people, even seven hundred chosen men, were left-handed; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.[↗](../../sling/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JDG.20.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sling/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · For thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.[↗](../../sling/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.10.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sling/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.[↗](../../sling/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1SA.17.50, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sling/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **slinger** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* A person who throws stones with a sling.[↗](../../slinger/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") **slinging** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Slinging is throwing stones with a sling.[↗](../../slinging/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Slinging is carrying something swung loosely over the shoulders.[↗](../../slinging/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* It was Kabo who broke my leg at the slinging game.[↗](../../slinging/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He was slinging the deer over his shoulders.[↗](../../slinging/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Let us play at slinging again tomorrow.[↗](../../slinging/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · And Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.[↗](../../slinging/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 2CH.26.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../slinging/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow; they were of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.[↗](../../slinging/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 1CH.12.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../slinging/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **slink** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To slink is to move quietly and sneakily, trying not to be seen.[↗](../../slink/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To slink away is to leave quietly, looking ashamed or hiding.[↗](../../slink/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The cat slunk under the table when the dog barked.[↗](../../slink/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The Fox slunk away behind a tree.[↗](../../slink/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He slinks off to his bed above the stove.[↗](../../slink/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The sun ariseth, they slink away, and couch in their dens.[↗](../../slink/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.104.22, JPS 1917)[↗](../../slink/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") **slip** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To slide by accident and fall or nearly fall, especially on something wet or smooth.[↗](../../slip/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To move or go quietly and quickly: «She slipped out of the room».[↗](../../slip/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To put something somewhere quickly: «He slipped the note into his pocket».[↗](../../slip/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A noun: a small mistake: a slip of the tongue.[↗](../../slip/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* A noun: a small piece of paper: a permission slip.[↗](../../slip/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 6:* Slip on/off: to put on or take off clothes easily.[↗](../../slip/#m6 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 7:* To slip through someone's fingers means to escape from them.[↗](../../slip/#m7 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Be careful — you might slip on the ice.[↗](../../slip/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I slipped on a banana skin.[↗](../../slip/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Walk, don't run, by the pool so you don't slip.[↗](../../slip/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Slip, slop, slap: slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, slap on a hat.[↗](../../slip/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Bring your signed permission slip on Monday.[↗](../../slip/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He slipped the letter under the door.[↗](../../slip/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · I let the secret slip by accident.[↗](../../slip/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Saying «Mum» to the teacher was a slip of the tongue.[↗](../../slip/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Vengeance is Mine, and recompense, against the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.[↗](../../slip/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.32.35, JPS 1917)[↗](../../slip/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, and my feet have not slipped.[↗](../../slip/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.22.37, JPS 1917)[↗](../../slip/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · My steps have held fast to Thy paths, my feet have not slipped.[↗](../../slip/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.17.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../slip/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.[↗](../../slip/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.73.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../slip/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **slipper** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A soft, comfortable shoe you wear indoors.[↗](../../slipper/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Cinderella's glass slipper in the fairy tale.[↗](../../slipper/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Put your slippers on; the floor is cold.[↗](../../slipper/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandpa's slippers are by the fire.[↗](../../slipper/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Cinderella lost her glass slipper.[↗](../../slipper/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The dog chewed my slipper.[↗](../../slipper/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · I got fluffy slippers for my birthday.[↗](../../slipper/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · How many slippers are in 4 pairs?[↗](../../slipper/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **slippery** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Slippery means smooth, wet or icy so that it is hard to hold or to stand on without sliding.[↗](../../slippery/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A slippery person cannot be trusted and is hard to catch or pin down.[↗](../../slippery/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The floor is slippery after mopping.[↗](../../slippery/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Walk carefully — the path is slippery with ice.[↗](../../slippery/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't run by the pool; it's slippery.[↗](../../slippery/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The fish was too slippery to hold.[↗](../../slippery/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Soap makes your hands slippery.[↗](../../slippery/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Wet leaves make the road slippery for bikes.[↗](../../slippery/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The rocks by the river are slippery.[↗](../../slippery/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The slippery thief escaped again.[↗](../../slippery/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The rock was slippery as a ball, and they had to crawl rather than climb.[↗](../../slippery/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Let their way be dark and slippery, the angel of the LORD pursuing them.[↗](../../slippery/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.35.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../slippery/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Surely Thou settest them in slippery places; Thou hurlest them down to utter ruin.[↗](../../slippery/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.73.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../slippery/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness, they shall be thrust, and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.[↗](../../slippery/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.23.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../slippery/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **slipping** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Slipping is sliding by accident and losing your balance, often on something wet or smooth.[↗](../../slipping/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Slipping is moving quietly or quickly, like slipping out of a room.[↗](../../slipping/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Slipping is putting something somewhere quickly and quietly, like slipping a note into a pocket.[↗](../../slipping/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Slipping can mean getting worse, like marks or grades slipping.[↗](../../slipping/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* He was slipping on the icy path.[↗](../../slipping/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The rope kept slipping out of my hands.[↗](../../slipping/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She was slipping quietly out of the room.[↗](../../slipping/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · I saw him slipping a note into her bag.[↗](../../slipping/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Wipe up spills so nobody slips.[↗](../../slipping/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My grades are slipping, so I need to practise more.[↗](../../slipping/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The soap kept slipping in the bath.[↗](../../slipping/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Time is slipping away; finish your test.[↗](../../slipping/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Slipping his net quickly beneath it he drew it out and lifted the silk coverlet.[↗](../../slipping/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **slippy** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (informal, UK, Ireland, Australia) Slippery; smooth or wet so that you slide or fall easily.[↗](../../slippy/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Careful, the floor is slippy\![↗](../../slippy/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The path is slippy with ice.[↗](../../slippy/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Wet leaves make the road slippy.[↗](../../slippy/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The soap is so slippy I keep dropping it.[↗](../../slippy/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · My shoes are slippy on the gym floor.[↗](../../slippy/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · It was the slippiest day of winter.[↗](../../slippy/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **slit** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A slit is a long, narrow cut or opening.[↗](../../slit/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To slit something is to make a long, narrow cut in it.[↗](../../slit/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* He slit the envelope open.[↗](../../slit/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Light came in through a slit in the curtain.[↗](../../slit/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The cat's eyes became narrow slits in the sun.[↗](../../slit/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum slit the bag of flour with scissors.[↗](../../slit/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The skirt has a slit at the back.[↗](../../slit/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The robot's eyes were two slits.[↗](../../slit/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · If she had dared, she would have killed the sparrow then and there, but as it was she only ventured to slit its tongue.[↗](../../slit/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **slither** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To slither is to move along smoothly, twisting from side to side, like a snake.[↗](../../slither/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To slither is to slide in an unsteady way on a slippery surface.[↗](../../slither/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The snake slithered into the grass.[↗](../../slither/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We slithered down the muddy bank.[↗](../../slither/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A slug slithered across the path.[↗](../../slither/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The eel slithered out of his hands.[↗](../../slither/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The car slithered on the icy road.[↗](../../slither/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **sliver** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A very thin, small piece cut or broken off something.[↗](../../sliver/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "a sliver of cake", "a sliver of glass".[↗](../../sliver/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A tiny amount.[↗](../../sliver/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "a sliver of hope".[↗](../../sliver/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* In parts of the USA and Canada, a splinter in your skin.[↗](../../sliver/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Can I have a tiny sliver of cake?[↗](../../sliver/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A sliver of glass was on the floor.[↗](../../sliver/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Only a sliver of the moon was showing.[↗](../../sliver/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · I got a sliver of wood in my finger.[↗](../../sliver/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · There was a sliver of light under the door.[↗](../../sliver/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She cut a sliver of cheese.[↗](../../sliver/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **slob** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (informal, rude) A slob is a person who is lazy, messy and does not care about being tidy or clean.[↗](../../slob/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (UK informal) To slob out or slob about means to relax lazily, doing nothing much.[↗](../../slob/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A slob can also mean soft, wet mud, especially at the edge of a river or the sea.[↗](../../slob/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My brother is a slob; his room is full of crisp packets.[↗](../../slob/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Stop being a slob and make your bed.[↗](../../slob/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · On Sunday we just slobbed out in front of the telly.[↗](../../slob/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") (UK)[↗](../../slob/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The cartoon slob never washed his dishes.[↗](../../slob/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · I felt like a slob after lying in bed all morning.[↗](../../slob/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't call people slobs, it is unkind.[↗](../../slob/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad slobbed about in his pyjamas all day.[↗](../../slob/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · "Never say't twice," says Jack, and he pitched in big stones and sods into the slob, till the ass got good ground under him.[↗](../../slob/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **sloe** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A sloe is a small, round, dark blue-black fruit of the blackthorn bush, very sour when raw.[↗](../../sloe/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The blackthorn bush itself is sometimes called a sloe.[↗](../../sloe/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We found sloes in the hedge on our autumn walk.[↗](../../sloe/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Sloes are too sour to eat straight from the bush.[↗](../../sloe/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The blackthorn has white flowers in spring and sloes in autumn.[↗](../../sloe/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Birds eat the sloes in winter.[↗](../../sloe/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandad makes sloe jelly every October.[↗](../../sloe/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The sloes looked like tiny dark plums.[↗](../../sloe/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · "Now look at the sloe bush."[↗](../../sloe/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **slogan** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A short, catchy phrase used in advertising or by a group to make people remember a product or an idea: «Every little helps».[↗](../../slogan/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A short phrase that expresses the aims of a campaign or protest.[↗](../../slogan/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Our class made a slogan for saving water: «Every drop counts!»[↗](../../slogan/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The cereal box had a catchy slogan.[↗](../../slogan/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The protesters chanted slogans outside the town hall.[↗](../../slogan/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A good slogan is short and easy to remember.[↗](../../slogan/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The team's slogan is «Never give up».[↗](../../slogan/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Adverts use slogans to make you want things.[↗](../../slogan/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **slop** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To slop means to spill liquid over the edge of a container, often messily.[↗](../../slop/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Slop is food that is watery and unpleasant.[↗](../../slop/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Slops are waste food or dirty water, sometimes fed to pigs.[↗](../../slop/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* In Australia and New Zealand «Slip, Slop, Slap» means slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, slap on a hat.[↗](../../slop/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Don't slop your soup on the table.[↗](../../slop/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The water slopped over the side of the bucket.[↗](../../slop/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Slip, Slop, Slap before you go out in the sun\![↗](../../slop/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The farmer fed slops to the pigs.[↗](../../slop/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The school lunch looked like grey slop.[↗](../../slop/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Carry the paint carefully so it doesn't slop.[↗](../../slop/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Tea slopped into the saucer.[↗](../../slop/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **slope** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A slope is a surface or piece of ground that goes up or down, with one end higher than the other, like a hill.[↗](../../slope/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To slope means to go up or down at an angle.[↗](../../slope/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* The garden slopes down to the river.[↗](../../slope/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Ski slopes are hills used for skiing.[↗](../../slope/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We rolled down the grassy slope.[↗](../../slope/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The car went up the steep slope slowly.[↗](../../slope/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The ball rolls faster down a steeper slope.[↗](../../slope/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We tested toy cars on slopes in science.[↗](../../slope/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The roof slopes so the rain runs off.[↗](../../slope/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We went skiing on the snowy slopes.[↗](../../slope/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Be careful on the muddy slope.[↗](../../slope/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · A wheelchair ramp is a gentle slope.[↗](../../slope/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Then Eliza went down the slope from the shore, and hid herself behind the bushes.[↗](../../slope/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.[↗](../../slope/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.4.49, JPS 1917)[↗](../../slope/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And the slope of the valleys that inclineth toward the seat of Ar, and leaneth upon the border of Moab. — (Torah NUM.21.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../slope/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · the Arabah also, the Jordan being the border thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.[↗](../../slope/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.3.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../slope/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth; (Prophets JOS.13.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../slope/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · and the Arabah unto the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and unto the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah; (Prophets JOS.12.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../slope/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · in the hill-country, and in the Lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: (Prophets JOS.12.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../slope/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/) … [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/56/) **57** [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/58/) … [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/127/) - ← previous: [page 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/56/) - next →: [page 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/58/) - ↑ back to [The English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/)