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# dedicate

«dedicate» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to give it to a person or purpose, often out of love or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (dedicate, dedicates, dedicated, dedicating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To dedicate something is to give it to a person or purpose, often out of love or respect. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dedicate/#m1)

2) (old use) To dedicate a book is to write someone's name at the front to honour them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dedicate/#m2)

3) To dedicate yourself is to promise to give your time and effort to something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dedicate/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

in old books and tales a writer dedicates a book or poem to a friend or hero; in everyday talk, a person dedicates their life to a cause

### examples

- Out of the spoil won in battles did they dedicate to repair the house of the LORD. (Writings 1CH.26.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dedicate/#x1)
- These also did king David dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he dedicated of all the nations which he subdued: (Prophets 2SA.8.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dedicate/#x2)
- She dedicated her picture to her grandmother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dedicate/#x3)
- The author dedicated the book to her teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dedicate/#x4)
- He dedicated his whole summer to learning the piano. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dedicate/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.346/)
- [Out of the spoil won in battles did they dedicate to repair the house of the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.933/)
- [So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.143/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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