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# affairs

«affairs» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Matters or business, especially public or official ones:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (plural of affair: an affair, affairs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Matters or business, especially public or official ones: world affairs, foreign affairs, current affairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affairs/#m1)

2) Personal business and money matters: "She put her affairs in order." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affairs/#m2)

3) An event or situation, described in a certain way: "The party was a quiet affair." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affairs/#m3)

4) (adult life) A secret romantic relationship between two people when at least one of them is married to someone else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affairs/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In news and citizenship lessons "current affairs" means the important things happening in the world now; governments have a minister of foreign affairs. "State of affairs" means the situation. In adult life seen by a child, "put his affairs in order" means sorting out money and a will, often before an operation or death. "Having an affair" is when a married person secretly has a boyfriend or girlfriend, which often hurts a family deeply. Phrases: current affairs, foreign affairs, state of affairs, mind your own affairs.

### examples

- All the day they trouble mine affairs; all their thoughts are against me for evil. (Writings PSA.56.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affairs/#x1)
- Well is it with the man that dealeth graciously and lendeth, that ordereth his affairs rightfully. (Writings PSA.112.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affairs/#x2)
- And Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel was in the gate of the king. (Writings DAN.2.49, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affairs/#x3)
- We discuss current affairs every Friday in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affairs/#x4)
- The Minister for Foreign Affairs met the ambassador. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affairs/#x5)
- "This is a sorry state of affairs," sighed the teacher, looking at the messy room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affairs/#x6)
- Before his operation, Grandad put his affairs in order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affairs/#x7)
- My birthday was a small family affair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affairs/#x8)
- Mind your own affairs! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affairs/#x9)
- In the story, the queen discovered the king was having an affair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affairs/#x10)
- He took an active part in public affairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affairs/#x11)

### note

"Affairs" is the plural; "affair" is singular (an affair). Spelled with double f. Trap: "affair" (matter, event) is not "a fair" (a funfair). Plural "affairs" is used for public business (world affairs); singular "an affair" more often means one event or a secret relationship.

### In the corpora

- [All the day they trouble mine affairs; all their thoughts are against me for evil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.922/)
- [Well is it with the man that dealeth graciously and lendeth, that ordereth his affairs rightfully.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2068/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «affairs» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affairs/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.