[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/mortgage.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/) / mortgage [← M](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/M/) # mortgage «mortgage» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a big loan from a bank to buy a house or flat; you pay it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it. ### part of speech noun (a mortgage, mortgages); verb (mortgage, mortgages, mortgaged, mortgaging) ### meaning for a pupil 1) (money) A mortgage is a big loan from a bank to buy a house or flat; you pay it back with interest, a bit every month, over many years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mortgage/#m1) 2) (money) To mortgage a house is to use it as a promise for a loan: if you cannot pay, the bank can take the house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mortgage/#m2) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means to give a field or house as a pledge for a loan. Here poor people had to pledge their land to get grain in a famine. Interpretation: Nehemiah is read as scolding the rich for pressing their poor brothers. The law says to lend without interest and to help the poor. In the primary lessons: In adult life many families pay a mortgage; it is often the biggest monthly bill. Children may hear parents worry when interest rates go up. When the loan is all paid, the family owns the house outright. In maths problems a mortgage shows monthly payments and interest: paying back more than you borrowed. Phrases: take out a mortgage, pay the mortgage, mortgage payments, pay off the mortgage, mortgaged to the hilt. ### examples - Some also there were that said: 'We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses; let us get corn, because of the dearth.' (Writings NEH.5.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mortgage/#x1) - Mum and Dad took out a mortgage to buy our house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mortgage/#x2) - Most of Dad's pay goes on the mortgage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mortgage/#x3) - When the mortgage is paid off, the house will be all ours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mortgage/#x4) - The bank checks your payslips before giving you a mortgage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mortgage/#x5) - If a family can't pay the mortgage, they might lose the house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mortgage/#x6) - A mortgage of 200 thousand pounds paid at 1,000 a month takes a long time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mortgage/#x7) - Renting is different from having a mortgage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mortgage/#x8) - Now my horses and lands are all mortgaged, it is indeed high time; but gold will come at last--at Easter.' [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mortgage/#x9) ### note The t is silent: say "MOR-gij". Countable. In maths: the total paid back is more than the loan because of interest. The person who borrows is the borrower; the bank is the lender. Not the same as rent (paying an owner to live in their home). ### In the corpora - [There is rent or a mortgage, energy for heating and hot water, council tax, broadband and insurance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/1/) - [Some families rent their home from a landlord; others are buying it with a huge loan from a bank called a mortgage.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/2/) - [Most adults have some, like a mortgage or a car loan, and planned debt can be fine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/1/) - [A mortgage is a very big bank loan to buy a house, paid back monthly for 25 years or more with interest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/16/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «mortgage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mortgage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.