[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/beat.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / beat [← B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/B/) # beat «beat» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to win against someone** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it. ### part of speech verb (beat, beats, beat, beaten, beating); noun (a beat, beats); adjective (beat — informal, very tired) ### meaning for a pupil 1) To beat is to win against someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#m1) 2) To beat is to hit again and again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#m2) 3) To beat food is to mix it fast, like eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#m3) 4) A beat is a regular sound or pulse, like the beat of a drum or a heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#m4) 5) Beat (informal) means very tired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#m5) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: To hit or strike, to hammer metal, or to knock olives from a tree. Interpretation: The rule on beating the olive tree is read as a duty to leave the rest for the poor. The beaten fire-pans were hammered into a cover for the altar to remind Israel of Korah's rebellion. In the primary lessons: a comparison of scores or times between winner and loser; in music, beats per bar; in science, heartbeats per minute; phrases «beat by», «beat a record», «heartbeat», «on the beat», «beat it» (go away) ### examples - Then the Amalekite and the Canaanite, who dwelt in that hill-country, came down, and smote them and beat them down, even unto Hormah. (Torah NUM.14.45, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x1) - And Eleazar the priest took the brazen fire-pans, which they that were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar, (Torah NUM.16.39, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x2) - When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. (Torah DEU.24.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x3) - Thou beatest him with the rod, and wilt deliver his soul from the nether-world. (Writings PRO.23.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x4) - And I will beat to pieces his adversaries before him, and smite them that hate him. (Writings PSA.89.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x5) - Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears; let the weak say: 'I am strong.' (Prophets JOL.4.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x6) - The Lions beat the Tigers by 5 points. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x7) - She beat her record by 2 seconds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x8) - He beat 3 eggs for the cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x9) - How many points did they need to beat 40? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x10) - My heart beats about 80 times a minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x11) - Clap to the beat of the music. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x12) - The rain beat on the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x13) - I'm beat after the long hike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x14) - Can you beat my high score? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x15) - The drummer kept the beat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x16) - Oh, how his heart did beat! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/#x17) ### note «beat by» gives a difference: winner = loser + margin. Trap: to beat 40 you need at least 41. Past form «beat», past participle «beaten». «Beat» sounds like «beet» (a red vegetable). Hitting people or animals is wrong. ### In the corpora - [Their knops and their branches shall be of one piece with it; the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.736/) - [And he made two cherubim of gold: of beaten work made he them, at the two ends of the ark-cover:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1129/) - [Their knops and their branches were of one piece with it; the whole of it was one beaten work of pure gold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1145/) - [And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.170/) - [And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.395/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «beat» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beat/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.