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# marry

«marry» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to become their husband or wife in a wedding** — 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

verb (marry, marries, married, marrying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To marry someone means to become their husband or wife in a wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marry/#m1)

2) To marry means to perform the wedding: "The priest married them." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marry/#m2)

3) To marry two things means to join or combine them well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marry/#m3)

4) Marry is an old word, used to mean "indeed" or "truly" to show strong feeling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marry/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Ezra and Nehemiah condemn marrying foreign women who worshipped other gods. The worry was that they would lead Israel away from God. Interpretation: Tradition reads these laws as being about protecting the faith and keeping the people loyal to God. It was not seen as hatred of other nations. In the primary lessons: In stories: fairy tales often end with the prince and princess marrying. In everyday life: weddings, getting married. Phrases: marry someone, get married, married to, marry into.

### examples

- Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to break faith with our God in marrying foreign women?' (Writings NEH.13.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marry/#x1)
- My aunt is going to marry her boyfriend next summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marry/#x2)
- They got married in a small church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marry/#x3)
- The prince married the princess and they lived happily ever after. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marry/#x4)
- My grandparents have been married for fifty years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marry/#x5)
- The judge married the couple at the town hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marry/#x6)
- This dish marries sweet and sour flavours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marry/#x7)
- "Marry, I'm in earnest," said the tinker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marry/#x8)

### note

Spelling: marries, married (y to i). Say "marry someone", not "marry with someone". "Get married" is common in speech. Do not confuse with "merry" (happy) or "Mary" (a name): in some accents they sound alike. In maths: years married = this year's number − wedding year's number.

### In the corpora

- [And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.471/)
- [For an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.887/)
- [And they were finished with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.259/)
- [In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.430/)
- [Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to break faith with our God in marrying foreign women?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.434/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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