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# leg

«leg» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a part of the body that people and animals stand and walk on** — 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 (leg, legs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A leg is a part of the body that people and animals stand and walk on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#m1)

2) Tables, chairs and stools also have legs that hold them up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#m2)

3) A leg of a trip or a race is one part of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#m3)

4) The leg of trousers is the part that covers your leg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a counted part: each animal or object has a fixed number of legs (a hen has 2 legs, a dog has 4 legs, an insect has 6 legs, a spider has 8 legs, a stool has 3 legs); legs puzzles; one part of a trip or relay race. In science: insects have 6 legs, spiders 8; leg bones and muscles. Phrases: «break a leg» (good luck to an actor), «pull someone's leg» (joke with them), «on its last legs» (almost broken).

### examples

- And he washed the inwards and the legs, and made them smoke upon the burnt-offering on the altar. (Torah LEV.9.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x1)
- But the skin of the bullock, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its inwards, and its dung, (Torah LEV.4.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x2)
- Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof. (Torah EXO.12.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x3)
- its legs of iron, its feet part of iron and part of clay. (Writings DAN.2.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x4)
- The legs hang limp from the lame; so is a parable in the mouth of fools. (Writings PRO.26.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x5)
- And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders. (Prophets 1SA.17.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x6)
- A dog has 4 legs. How many legs do 5 dogs have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x7)
- There are chickens and cows with 30 legs in all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x8)
- Each stool has 3 legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x9)
- The first leg of the trip is 20 km. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x10)
- She hurt her leg playing netball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x11)
- An insect has 6 legs and a spider has 8 legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x12)
- He ran the last leg of the relay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x13)
- Are you pulling my leg? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x14)
- Take care, and remember your legs." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x15)

### note

Countable: «a leg», «legs». «Break a leg!» is a kind wish, not a bad one. Maths: hides a multiplication: number of animals × legs each. Trap: the problem often does not say how many legs each animal has; you must know it (bird 2, insect 6, spider 8).

### In the corpora

- [And he washed the inwards and the legs, and made them smoke upon the burnt-offering on the altar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.224/)
- [And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.457/)
- [He delighteth not in the strength of the horse; He taketh no pleasure in the legs of a man.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2657/)
- [The legs hang limp from the lame; so is a parable in the mouth of fools.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.756/)
- [its legs of iron, its feet part of iron and part of clay.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.57/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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