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# kingdom

«kingdom» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a country ruled by a king or queen** — 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 kingdom, kingdoms)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A kingdom is a country ruled by a king or queen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kingdom/#m1)

2) In science, a kingdom is one of the biggest groups living things are sorted into, like the animal kingdom or the plant kingdom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kingdom/#m2)

3) A kingdom can be an area that belongs to someone, like «the kitchen is Dad's kingdom». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kingdom/#m3)

4) A kingdom can also be a large group of things of the same kind, such as the mineral kingdom, which includes all the metals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kingdom/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: God calls Israel "a kingdom of priests," meaning a people set apart to serve God and teach others. In the prophets and writings, a kingdom is also the realm of a human king, like Solomon's, and the great powers of the nations are called kingdoms. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as Israel's mission to live in holiness and to be an example to the world. The prophets are read as saying that the kingdoms of the nations will one day answer to God. In the primary lessons: In history and fairy tales kingdoms have castles, kings and queens; in science classification, living things are sorted from kingdom down to species. Phrases: «the United Kingdom», «the animal kingdom», «plant kingdom», «a magical kingdom».

### examples

- and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. (Torah EXO.19.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kingdom/#x1)
- And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. (Torah GEN.10.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kingdom/#x2)
- all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. — (Torah DEU.3.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kingdom/#x3)
- And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom. (Prophets 1KI.1.46, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kingdom/#x4)
- And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon. (Prophets 1KI.2.46, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kingdom/#x5)
- Hark, the uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! (Prophets ISA.13.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kingdom/#x6)
- The king ruled a large kingdom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kingdom/#x7)
- The United Kingdom has a king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kingdom/#x8)
- Lions belong to the animal kingdom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kingdom/#x9)
- Mushrooms are in the fungi kingdom, not the plant kingdom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kingdom/#x10)
- The princess saved the kingdom from the dragon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kingdom/#x11)
- Long ago, England had several small kingdoms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kingdom/#x12)
- The garden shed is Grandad's kingdom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kingdom/#x13)
- My father reigned over six kingdoms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kingdom/#x14)

### note

Countable. King + -dom (realm). Capital letters for names: the United Kingdom. Trap: fungi are not plants; scientists put them in their own kingdom.

### In the corpora

- [And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.256/)
- [and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.533/)
- [Then said Samuel to the people: 'Come and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.273/)
- [For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.608/)
- [He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.191/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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