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# navy

«navy» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **the part of a country's armed forces that fights at sea…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a navy, navies; the Navy); adjective (navy, navy blue)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A navy is the part of a country's armed forces that fights at sea, with ships, sailors and submarines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/navy/#m1)

2) Navy (navy blue) is a very dark blue colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/navy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A fleet of trading ships. Solomon's ships, with sailors from King Hiram of Tyre, sailed to Ophir for gold and rare goods. In the primary lessons: In history and news, the Royal Navy (UK), the US Navy, the Royal Australian Navy and others defend their countries at sea. In school life, «navy» is a common uniform colour for jumpers and skirts. Phrases: «join the navy», «Royal Navy», «navy blue», «in the navy».

### examples

- And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. (Prophets 1KI.9.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/navy/#x1)
- And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of sandal-wood and precious stones. (Prophets 1KI.10.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/navy/#x2)
- And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. (Prophets 1KI.9.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/navy/#x3)
- My uncle served in the Royal Navy for ten years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/navy/#x4)
- Our school jumper is navy blue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/navy/#x5)
- The navy sent ships to help after the flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/navy/#x6)
- She wore a navy coat and red boots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/navy/#x7)
- Sailors in the navy learn to swim and tie knots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/navy/#x8)
- The two navies fought a great sea battle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/navy/#x9)
- "Could we ever forgive ourselves if by neglecting a simple precaution we lost more rabbits--or even, perhaps, our navy, our police, and our fire brigade? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/navy/#x10)

### note

Plural: navies. Capital N when naming a particular navy (the Royal Navy). As a colour it does not take -s: «navy socks». Adjective for the sea forces: naval («a naval base»), not «navy base» (though US English sometimes uses «Navy base»).

### In the corpora

- [And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.377/)
- [Athens loved debate, trade, art and its navy; Sparta loved discipline, obedience and its army.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/13/)
- [Elizabeth I ruled England for 45 years, and in 1588 her navy and stormy weather defeated the Spanish Armada.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/25-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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