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# divide

«divide» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to split a number or amount into equal parts or groups…** — 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

verb (divide, divides, divided, dividing); noun (a divide — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To divide is to split a number or amount into equal parts or groups; it is the operation ÷. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divide/#m1)

2) To divide is to split anything into parts: divide the class into teams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divide/#m2)

3) To divide can mean to keep two places apart: a river divides the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divide/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah it often means sharing out the land among the tribes, or separating one thing from another. Interpretation: Tradition reads the dividing of the land by lot as fair and God-guided, with each tribe's share set by its numbers. In the primary lessons: the operation ÷ ; the opposite of multiplying («Dividing undoes multiplying»); «divide A by B» = A ÷ B; «shared equally», «split equally», «each gets» point to dividing; in everyday life dividing a pizza, dividing into teams; in science cells divide to make new cells

### examples

- And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. (Torah GEN.33.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divide/#x1)
- According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.' (Torah NUM.26.56, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divide/#x2)
- 'Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names. (Torah NUM.26.53, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divide/#x3)
- I say: Thou and Ziba divide the land.' (Prophets 2SA.19.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divide/#x4)
- So they made an end of dividing the land. (Prophets JOS.19.51, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divide/#x5)
- 'Are they not finding, are they not dividing the spoil? (Prophets JDG.5.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divide/#x6)
- When we share a number of things equally into groups, we divide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divide/#x7)
- Dividing undoes multiplying: 3 × 4 = 12, so 12 ÷ 3 = 4. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divide/#x8)
- Divide 18 sweets among 6 children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divide/#x9)
- The class of 24 is divided into 4 teams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divide/#x10)
- 20 divided by 5 is 4. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divide/#x11)
- Dad divided the pizza into 8 slices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divide/#x12)
- A fence divides our garden from the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divide/#x13)
- Divide the page into two columns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divide/#x14)
- They divided the money into three heaps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/divide/#x15)

### note

Divide when a total is shared equally or put into equal groups; check by multiplying back. Trap: the total comes first: «divide 18 by 6» is 18 ÷ 6, not 6 ÷ 18. You cannot divide by zero. Noun «division»; what is left over is the «remainder».

### In the corpora

- [And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.3/)
- [And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1034/)
- [Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth; in the morning he devoureth the prey, and at even he divideth the spoil.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1626/)
- ['Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.968/)
- [Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.970/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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