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# inhabitant

«inhabitant» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a person who lives in a place, such as a town, island or…** — 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 (an inhabitant, inhabitants)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An inhabitant is a person who lives in a place, such as a town, island or country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#m1)

2) An animal that lives in a particular place or habitat: the inhabitants of the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A person living in a land, often one of the peoples of Canaan. In the later books it also names the people of a town or country, such as Keilah or Tyre, and even the creatures of the deep or the shades below the waters. In the primary lessons: In geography and maths: «the town has 5,000 inhabitants», «the inhabitants of the island». In science: animals that are inhabitants of a habitat. It tells the reader who lives somewhere.

### examples

- The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. (Torah EXO.15.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#x1)
- These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah, (Torah GEN.36.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#x2)
- And the land was defiled, therefore I did visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomited out her inhabitants. (Torah LEV.18.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#x3)
- So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. (Prophets 1SA.23.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#x4)
- The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof. (Writings JOB.26.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#x5)
- Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; (Writings PSA.83.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#x6)
- The village has only three hundred inhabitants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#x7)
- The first inhabitants of the island were fishermen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#x8)
- Frogs and newts are inhabitants of the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#x9)
- The inhabitants of the town came out to watch the parade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#x10)
- How many inhabitants does your city have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#x11)
- The castle's only inhabitants now are bats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#x12)
- One of the inhabitants of Novgorod was angling in the brook Chorny. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#x13)

### note

Countable. Verb: inhabit (to live in). Trap: «inhabited» means people live there; «uninhabited» means nobody lives there; «inhabitable» and «habitable» both mean fit to live in. In maths problems, number of inhabitants = population.

### In the corpora

- [These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1147/)
- [The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.430/)
- [And the land was defiled, therefore I did visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.536/)
- [But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.193/)
- [And he went up thence against the inhabitants of Debir — now the name of Debir beforetime was Kiriath-sepher.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.381/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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