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# papyrus

«papyrus» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A tall water plant like a reed that grows by the River Nile** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (papyrus — uncountable; a papyrus, papyri or papyruses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tall water plant like a reed that grows by the River Nile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/papyrus/#m1)

2) A kind of paper made from this plant by the ancient Egyptians. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/papyrus/#m2)

3) An ancient document written on this paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/papyrus/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Isaiah it is a reed used to make light boats on the Nile. The land beyond Kush sends messengers in them. In the primary lessons: In history lessons about Ancient Egypt, scribes wrote hieroglyphs on papyrus scrolls. The word «paper» comes from «papyrus». Many old Bible texts were found on papyrus. Phrases: «papyrus scroll», «written on papyrus».

### examples

- That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters! (Prophets ISA.18.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/papyrus/#x1)
- The Egyptians wrote on papyrus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/papyrus/#x2)
- Papyrus grows along the River Nile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/papyrus/#x3)
- We made our own papyrus in class from strips of paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/papyrus/#x4)
- The scroll was rolled-up papyrus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/papyrus/#x5)
- The word «paper» comes from papyrus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/papyrus/#x6)
- Old pieces of the Bible were found on papyri. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/papyrus/#x7)
- A papyrus, which is supposed to be "of the age of the nineteenth dynasty, about B.C. 1300," has preserved an Egyptian tale about two brothers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/papyrus/#x8)

### note

Plural for documents: papyri (pa-PIE-rye) or papyruses. Uncountable for the material.

### In the corpora

- [That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.376/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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