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# plot

«plot» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The main events of a story, film or play** — 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

noun (a plot, plots); verb (plot, plots, plotted, plotting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The main events of a story, film or play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plot/#m1)

2) A secret plan, often to do something wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plot/#m2)

3) A small piece of land, such as for a garden or a house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plot/#m3)

4) (verb, maths) To mark points on a graph or map. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plot/#m4)

5) (verb) To plan something secretly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plot/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means a small piece of ground, such as a field. It once means the field of Naboth, taken by King Ahab. Interpretation: The field of Naboth shows that wrongs done to the innocent will be answered, as the prophets taught. In the primary lessons: In English lessons: the plot of a story. In maths: plot the points (2, 3) on the grid, plot a line graph. In gardening: a vegetable plot. Phrases: plot points, the plot thickens, lose the plot (slang: go crazy).

### examples

- Now therefore take and cast him into the plot of ground, according to the word of the LORD.' (Prophets 2KI.9.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plot/#x1)
- But he stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD wrought a great victory. (Prophets 2SA.23.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plot/#x2)
- And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines. (Prophets 2SA.23.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plot/#x3)
- The plot of the book is very exciting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plot/#x4)
- Plot the point (3, 4) on the grid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plot/#x5)
- The villains made a plot to steal the crown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plot/#x6)
- We grow carrots on our plot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plot/#x7)
- Plot your results on a bar chart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plot/#x8)
- He's lost the plot! (slang: gone a bit crazy) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plot/#x9)
- The children plotted a surprise party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plot/#x10)
- The evil one's plot was successful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/plot/#x11)

### note

Doubles t: plotted, plotting. Maths: when plotting (x, y), go across first (x), then up (y). "Lose the plot" (UK slang) means become confused or angry.

### In the corpora

- [Now therefore take and cast him into the plot of ground, according to the word of the LORD.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.285/)
- [The wicked plotteth against the righteous, and gnasheth at him with his teeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.585/)
- [Every story has characters (who), a setting (where and when) and a plot (what happens).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/0/)
- [In a plot, one event often causes the next; this is cause and effect.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/21/)
- ["Lost the plot" means gone mad or started behaving in a wild, senseless way; it is British slang.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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