[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/birth.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/) / birth [← B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/B/) # birth «birth» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **the time when a baby or young animal comes out of its…** — 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 (birth, births) ### meaning for a pupil 1) Birth is the time when a baby or young animal comes out of its mother's body and starts living in the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/birth/#m1) 2) Birth is the beginning of something: the birth of a new nation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/birth/#m2) 3) By birth means by the family or place you were born into: Irish by birth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/birth/#m3) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The time when a person is born, and also a family order, as in tribes named in order of birth. Job wishes he had died at birth, and a psalm says God has cared for the speaker since birth. Interpretation: The names of the tribes are engraved in order of birth on the priest's shoulder stones. The tradition reads the psalm as showing that God watches over a person from the very beginning of life. In the primary lessons: In science, pupils study life cycles: birth, growth, adulthood, reproduction, old age, death; mammals give birth to live young, while birds and reptiles lay eggs. In everyday life: date of birth on forms, birth certificates, birthdays (the day you were born, celebrated every year). In history, «the birth of» the internet or of a country. Phrases: give birth to, at birth, date of birth, birth certificate, birthplace, birth weight. ### examples - six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, according to their birth. (Torah EXO.28.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/birth/#x1) - Four vowels n"2'BX, which are five vowels, that gave birth to twenty-seven consonants. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/birth/#x2) - Why did I not perish at birth? (Writings JOB.3.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/birth/#x3) - Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light. (Writings JOB.3.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/birth/#x4) - Upon Thee I have been cast from my birth; Thou art my God from my mother's womb. (Writings PSA.22.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/birth/#x5) - The cow gave birth to a calf last night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/birth/#x6) - Mammals give birth to live babies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/birth/#x7) - Write your date of birth on the form. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/birth/#x8) - My baby sister weighed 3 kilograms at birth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/birth/#x9) - We watched the birth of the lambs on the farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/birth/#x10) - The town is his birthplace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/birth/#x11) - The story tells the birth of a new kingdom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/birth/#x12) - ‘Of noble birth!’ said the Darning-needle; ‘no indeed, but proud! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/birth/#x13) ### note Usually uncountable for the event («at birth»), countable for counting («many births»). Homophone: «berth» (a bed on a ship or train, or a place for a ship in a harbour) sounds the same. «Give birth to» — not «born to» for the mother: «She gave birth to twins»; «The twins were born.» ### In the corpora - [Upon Thee I have been cast from my birth; Thou art my God from my mother's womb.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.318/) - [Why did I not perish at birth?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.48/) - [Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.54/) - [A good name is better than precious oil; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.123/) - [The children of a parent's partner can become your step-siblings: brothers or sisters through marriage, not by birth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/13/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «birth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/birth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.