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# bird

«bird» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **an animal with feathers, wings and a beak; it lays eggs…** — 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

noun (bird, birds)

### meaning for a pupil

A bird is an animal with feathers, wings and a beak; it lays eggs, and most birds can fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bird/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Birds are divided into clean ones that may be eaten and unclean ones that may not; birds were also used as offerings. Interpretation: The rabbis hold that only birds with signs of tradition may be eaten, and birds were used in the purification of a person healed of tzaraat. In the primary lessons: a thing counted, often sitting on a fence or a tree; birds come (add) and fly away (take away); in science birds are a group of animals with feathers; phrases: «a flock of birds», «bird's nest», «early bird», «birds of a feather»

### examples

- Of all clean birds ye may eat. (Torah DEU.14.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bird/#x1)
- And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. (Torah GEN.15.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bird/#x2)
- And he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. (Torah LEV.14.50, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bird/#x3)
- Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? (Writings JOB.40.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bird/#x4)
- Are the birds of prey against her round about? (Prophets JER.12.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bird/#x5)
- Is My heritage unto Me as a speckled bird of prey? (Prophets JER.12.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bird/#x6)
- 3 birds were sitting on the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bird/#x7)
- 4 more birds came to join them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bird/#x8)
- 6 birds flew away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bird/#x9)
- How many more storks than birds are on the fence? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bird/#x10)
- A robin is a small bird with a red chest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bird/#x11)
- Penguins are birds that cannot fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bird/#x12)
- The bird built a nest in our tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bird/#x13)
- We put out seeds for the birds in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bird/#x14)
- Fine feathers don’t make fine birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bird/#x15)

### note

A thing counted. «came», «joined» add; «flew away» takes away. Trap: storks and birds may be counted separately in the question. Fact: every bird has feathers; bats fly but are not birds; penguins and ostriches are birds but do not fly.

### In the corpora

- [And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.387/)
- [And the priest shall command to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.374/)
- [And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.418/)
- [And he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.419/)
- [Of all clean birds ye may eat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.412/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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