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# dearth

«dearth» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a shortage, a time when there is not enough of something…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural dearths)

### meaning for a pupil

A dearth is a shortage, a time when there is not enough of something, such as food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dearth/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A time without enough food, a famine. In Nehemiah poor people had to mortgage their fields to buy grain. Interpretation: Nehemiah's story is read as a lesson in fairness to the poor, since he demanded that the rich return what they had taken. In the primary lessons: in the tales, a dearth is a famine or a time when there is too little food or too few people to choose from

### examples

- Some also there were that said: 'We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses; let us get corn, because of the dearth.' (Writings NEH.5.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dearth/#x1)
- There was a dearth of rain that summer and the crops failed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dearth/#x2)
- Our town had a dearth of doctors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dearth/#x3)
- In the dearth of bread, the family grew hungry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dearth/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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