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# forest

«forest» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a large area of land covered thickly with trees and plants** — 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 (a forest, forests)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A forest is a large area of land covered thickly with trees and plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forest/#m1)

2) A forest of something is a large number of tall things close together: a forest of hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forest/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A forest is a wooded wild area where lions and other beasts live and where honey could be found. The psalm says every beast of the forest belongs to God. Interpretation: The tradition reads God's ownership of the forest beasts as a sign that all nature is His. The prophets use the forest and its roaring lion as a picture of danger and of God's warning. In the primary lessons: In science and geography: forests are habitats for many animals, give oxygen, store carbon and hold soil; types include rainforest (hot, wet, near the equator), deciduous forest (trees lose leaves in autumn) and coniferous forest (evergreens). In safety: stay on the paths, tell an adult where you go, never light fires in a dry forest. In fairy tales, the dark forest is often a place of danger and adventure. Phrases: rainforest, forest fire, deep in the forest.

### examples

- Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? (Prophets AMO.3.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forest/#x1)
- And all the people came into the forest; and there was honey upon the ground. (Prophets 1SA.14.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forest/#x2)
- For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. (Writings PSA.50.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forest/#x3)
- We walked through the forest on a path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forest/#x4)
- The Amazon is the largest rainforest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forest/#x5)
- Many animals live in the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forest/#x6)
- A forest fire can spread very fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forest/#x7)
- Hansel and Gretel got lost in the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forest/#x8)
- Trees in the forest lose their leaves in autumn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forest/#x9)
- Cutting down forests harms wildlife. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forest/#x10)
- A forest of hands went up when the teacher asked a question. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/forest/#x11)

### note

Countable. A forest is bigger and wilder than a wood or woods. «Rainforest» is one word. Forests are not empty: they are full of life, from fungi to birds.

### In the corpora

- [And all the people came into the forest; and there was honey upon the ground.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.353/)
- [So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.517/)
- [And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.235/)
- [And He shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.252/)
- [And it shall hail, in the downfall of the forest; but the city shall descend into the valley.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.679/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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