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[tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#m1) 2) Lent: in the Christian calendar, the forty days before Easter, when many Christians pray and give something up, like sweets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#m2) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Israelites may not lend to a fellow Israelite on interest, and debts lent are released in the seventh year. Interpretation: The Rabbis call this release the shemittah of debts, and later teachers built rules around it to protect the poor. In the primary lessons: In everyday life «lent» is the past of «lend»: borrowing and lending at school (pencils, books, money). In religious education, Lent is a time of fasting and preparing for Easter; it starts on Ash Wednesday and Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday) is the day before. Phrases: lent a hand (helped), lent to, give up for Lent. ### examples - Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother: interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest. (Torah DEU.23.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#x1) - And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbour; he shall not exact it of his neighbour and his brother; because the LORD'S release hath been proclaimed. (Torah DEU.15.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#x2) - And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, have lent them money and corn. (Writings NEH.5.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#x3) - I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them doth curse me. (Prophets JER.15.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#x4) - therefore I also have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he is lent to the LORD.' And he worshipped the LORD there. (Prophets 1SA.1.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#x5) - I lent my rubber to Jack and he never gave it back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#x6) - The library lent us ten books for the project. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#x7) - She lent a hand with the washing up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#x8) - For Lent, my cousin gave up chocolate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#x9) - Lent lasts forty days, until Easter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#x10) - We eat pancakes the day before Lent begins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#x11) - Who lent you that bike? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#x12) - Thereupon the rich man lent him twenty roubles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#x13) ### note Lend/borrow trap: you LEND something to someone (they get it); you BORROW something from someone (you get it). «I lent him my book» = he has it now. Lend, lent, lent — never «lended». Lent (the season) has a capital L. ### In the corpora - [I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them doth curse me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.444/) - [And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, have lent them money and corn.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.110/) - [And simply ruined that nice suit of clothes that I lent you!»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/27/) - [If you lose something a friend lent you, tell them quickly and help find or replace it; waiting makes it harder.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up/24/) - [Money lent to someone may not come back, so lend only what you can afford to lose.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money/24/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «lent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.