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# hair

«hair» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **what grows on your head and on parts of your body** — 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 (hair — usually uncountable; a hair, hairs — single strands)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Hair is what grows on your head and on parts of your body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hair/#m1)

2) A hair is one single thin strand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hair/#m2)

3) Hair, or fur, also grows on many animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hair/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Goats' hair was spun to make the cloths for the Tabernacle. Hair in the skin laws helps the priest judge whether a scall is clean. In the primary lessons: A word of the story; sometimes a length that grows or is cut, or a haircut price. In science: hair grows from roots in the skin; mammals have hair. In health: brush and wash your hair; head lice spread by touching heads. Phrases: «brush your hair», «haircut», «by a hair», «let your hair down», «hair-raising».

### examples

- and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair; (Torah EXO.25.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hair/#x1)
- And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats' hair. (Torah EXO.35.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hair/#x2)
- And if a man's hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean. (Torah LEV.13.40, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hair/#x3)
- Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that trail down from Gilead. (Writings SNG.6.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hair/#x4)
- Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven. (Prophets JDG.16.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hair/#x5)
- Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners of their hair polled; (Prophets JER.25.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hair/#x6)
- Her hair is 30 cm long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hair/#x7)
- She cut 5 cm off her hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hair/#x8)
- Hair grows about 1 cm a month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hair/#x9)
- A haircut costs 15 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hair/#x10)
- I found a hair in my soup! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hair/#x11)
- Grandpa's hair is grey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hair/#x12)
- Do not share combs, or you may share head lice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hair/#x13)
- She won the race by a hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hair/#x14)
- What if the hair should break? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hair/#x15)

### note

Cutting takes away length, growing adds. Trap: hair often only describes a person (red hair) and gives no number. Hair on your head is uncountable: «her hair is long», not «her hairs are long». Homophone: hare (an animal like a big rabbit).

### In the corpora

- [and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.704/)
- [And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains shalt thou make them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.747/)
- [and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1052/)
- [And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats' hair.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1072/)
- [And he made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains he made them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1096/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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