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# powerful

«powerful» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Very strong; having a lot of strength or force** — 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

adjective (powerful, more powerful, most powerful)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Very strong; having a lot of strength or force. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/powerful/#m1)

2) Having great control or influence over people: a powerful king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/powerful/#m2)

3) Having a strong effect: a powerful medicine, a powerful speech. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/powerful/#m3)

4) (of machines) Able to do a lot of work: a powerful engine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/powerful/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: "The voice of the LORD is powerful" praises God's voice that shakes the world, in the psalm about a thunderstorm. Interpretation: This psalm is sung on Shabbat. Tradition says God's voice at Sinai was heard with great power. In the primary lessons: In science lessons, powerful magnets, engines and storms. In history and stories, powerful rulers and wizards. In writing lessons, a powerful sentence moves the reader. Phrases: powerful enough, a powerful voice.

### examples

- The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty. (Writings PSA.29.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/powerful/#x1)
- The lion has powerful jaws. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/powerful/#x2)
- The king was the most powerful man in the land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/powerful/#x3)
- That was a powerful speech; some people cried. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/powerful/#x4)
- A powerful storm knocked down trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/powerful/#x5)
- This magnet is more powerful than that one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/powerful/#x6)
- The wizard cast a powerful spell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/powerful/#x7)
- "That was a powerful speech," thought the little Toad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/powerful/#x8)

### note

Comparative: more powerful, most powerful. Adverb: powerfully. Opposite: weak, powerless. Noun: power. In maths and physics, «power» also means the rate of doing work, and 2 to the power 3 means 2 × 2 × 2.

### In the corpora

- [The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.424/)
- [Some worries are big too, and many clever people are working to make powerful AI safe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/3/)
- [Whether such paintings are great art is argued: some say they are powerful in real life, others say they are a joke.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/18-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that/6/)
- [Zebras defend themselves with powerful kicks and bites that can badly injure a lion, and they have never been tamed like horses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/13/)
- [Cave hyenas cracked bones with powerful jaws and dragged them to their dens, which scientists find by gnawed bones and fossil droppings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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