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# frog

«frog» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a small green or brown animal with long back legs that…** — 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 (frog, frogs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A frog is a small green or brown animal with long back legs that jumps and lives near water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/frog/#m1)

2) «A frog in your throat» means a croaky voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/frog/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: One of the ten plagues on Egypt, when frogs filled the land. Interpretation: Tradition tells that the frogs came from the Nile and covered Egypt; it is recalled at Passover when drops of wine are spilled for the plagues. In the primary lessons: a jumper in a jumping contest, compared with the grasshopper and the mouse; or animals counted in a pond; in science, a frog is an amphibian: tadpoles hatch from eggs and grow into frogs; phrases: «frog spawn», «a frog in my throat», «leap frog»

### examples

- And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs. (Torah EXO.8.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/frog/#x1)
- And the frogs shall come up both upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.' (Torah EXO.8.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/frog/#x2)
- And the magicians did in like manner with their secret arts, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt. (Torah EXO.8.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/frog/#x3)
- Their land swarmed with frogs, in the chambers of their kings. (Writings PSA.105.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/frog/#x4)
- He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. (Writings PSA.78.45, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/frog/#x5)
- The grasshopper jumped 19 inches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/frog/#x6)
- The frog jumped 10 inches farther than the grasshopper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/frog/#x7)
- How far did the frog jump? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/frog/#x8)
- There are 8 frogs in the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/frog/#x9)
- A tadpole grows into a frog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/frog/#x10)
- Frogs lay their eggs in water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/frog/#x11)
- The frog caught a fly with its long tongue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/frog/#x12)
- We played leapfrog in the playground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/frog/#x13)
- The Frog puffed up still more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/frog/#x14)

### note

Countable: a frog, frogs. A name in a comparison: «the frog jumped N inches farther than X» means add N to X. Trap: «farther» adds, «less than» takes away; find who is compared to whom. Myth: touching a frog does not give you warts, but wash your hands after.

### In the corpora

- [(7-27) And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.204/)
- [(7-29) And the frogs shall come up both upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.206/)
- [(8-3) And the magicians did in like manner with their secret arts, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.209/)
- [He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1372/)
- [Their land swarmed with frogs, in the chambers of their kings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1891/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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