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# beloved

«beloved» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Loved very much: a beloved pet, a beloved teacher** — 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

adjective (beloved); noun (a beloved, someone's beloved)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Loved very much: a beloved pet, a beloved teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beloved/#m1)

2) (noun, old or poetic) A person who is loved, especially a sweetheart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beloved/#m2)

3) (church, Bible) Used for people dear to God or to each other, as in «dearly beloved» at the start of a wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beloved/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Dear to someone, especially favoured and loved. Interpretation: Benjamin is called the beloved of the LORD, and tradition reads "He dwelleth between his shoulders" as pointing to the Temple being built in Benjamin's land. The law says a father must not favour the son of the beloved wife over the true firstborn. In the primary lessons: In stories and news, «beloved» shows strong love or popularity: a beloved family dog, a beloved children's author. At weddings and funerals people hear «dearly beloved» or «beloved wife and mother» on gravestones.

### examples

- Of Benjamin he said: The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by Him; He covereth him all the day, and He dwelleth between his shoulders. (Torah DEU.33.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beloved/#x1)
- If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated; (Torah DEU.21.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beloved/#x2)
- then it shall be, in the day that he causeth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the first-born; (Torah DEU.21.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beloved/#x3)
- Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. (Writings SNG.5.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beloved/#x4)
- 'My beloved is white and ruddy, pre-eminent above ten thousand. (Writings SNG.5.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beloved/#x5)
- 'Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? (Writings SNG.6.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beloved/#x6)
- Our beloved cat lived to be eighteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beloved/#x7)
- The beloved old teacher retired this year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beloved/#x8)
- Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today… [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beloved/#x9)
- He wrote poems to his beloved. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beloved/#x10)
- The gravestone said "beloved father and grandfather". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beloved/#x11)
- Paddington is a beloved children's character. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beloved/#x12)
- Once our beloved Aphtanides paid us a visit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beloved/#x13)

### note

Said bee-LUV-id before a noun (my beloved dog) and often bee-LUVD after a verb (he was beloved by all). The noun sense sounds old-fashioned or romantic.

### In the corpora

- [Let me sing of my well-beloved, a song of my beloved touching his vineyard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.89/)
- [My well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.90/)
- [That Thy beloved may be delivered, save with Thy right hand, and answer me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.982/)
- [That Thy beloved may be delivered, save with Thy right hand, and answer me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2004/)
- [My beloved is unto me as a bag of myrrh, that lieth betwixt my breasts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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