[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/ladder.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / ladder [← L](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/L/) # ladder «ladder» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a piece of equipment for climbing up and down, with two…** — 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 ladder, ladders); verb (ladder, ladders, laddered — UK, of tights) ### meaning for a pupil 1) A ladder is a piece of equipment for climbing up and down, with two long side pieces joined by steps called rungs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/ladder/#m1) 2) A ladder is a series of levels you can move up, like a career ladder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/ladder/#m2) 3) In British English, a ladder is a line of broken threads in tights (in the USA, a «run»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/ladder/#m3) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Jacob's ladder shows a link between earth and heaven, with God standing above and promising him the land and many children. Interpretation: The rabbis read it as showing that people can rise toward God through their actions, and some saw the angels as a picture of the nations' rise and fall. In the primary lessons: In safety lessons: only use a ladder with an adult nearby, make sure it stands on flat, firm ground, keep three points of contact (two hands and a foot, or two feet and a hand), never lean too far to the side. Firefighters use long ladders to rescue people. In games, «Snakes and Ladders» (Chutes and Ladders in the USA) is a board game where ladders take you up. In maths, a ladder against a wall makes a right-angled triangle. Phrases: «climb a ladder», «go up the ladder», «step ladder», «rope ladder», «Snakes and Ladders». ### examples - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. (Torah GEN.28.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/ladder/#x1) - Eliphas Lévi, the famous French Occultist, thus wrote of the "Sepher Yetzirah," in his "Histoire de la Magie," P. 54: "The Zoharis a Genesis of illumination, the Sepher Jezirah is a ladder formed of truths. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/ladder/#x2) - Dad climbed the ladder to clean the gutters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/ladder/#x3) - Hold the ladder steady for me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/ladder/#x4) - The firefighter carried the child down the ladder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/ladder/#x5) - I landed on a ladder in Snakes and Ladders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/ladder/#x6) - The treehouse has a rope ladder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/ladder/#x7) - Don't walk under a ladder; something might fall on you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/ladder/#x8) - My tights have a ladder in them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/ladder/#x9) - She worked her way up the ladder to become head teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/ladder/#x10) - Are you standing on a ladder?" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/ladder/#x11) ### note Plural ladders. Do not confuse with «latter» (the second of two) or «larder» (a cupboard for food). Walking under a ladder being unlucky is a superstition, but it can be unsafe because tools may fall. ### In the corpora - [Left calm, it usually works out how to back down, like a person down a ladder.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/327-a-kitten-at-home-litter-trays-scratching-posts-and-play/5/) - [There is no single ladder of cleverness with humans at the top: each animal is clever in the ways its own life needs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/7/) - [Children climb a ladder only when a grown-up says yes and holds it, because ladders can slip and fall.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools/17/) - [Go up the ladder and down the slide, one at a time, so nobody crashes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/228-parks-and-playgrounds/15/) - [In snakes and ladders, count from the next square, not the one you are on.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/242-sharing-toys-and-board-games/21/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «ladder» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/ladder/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.