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# rent

«rent» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Money paid regularly to use a house, flat, room or land…** — 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 (rent, rents); verb (rent, rents, rented, renting); also past of «rend» (old: torn)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Money paid regularly to use a house, flat, room or land that belongs to someone else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#m1)

2) To pay to use something that belongs to someone else for a time (rent a flat, rent a bike). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#m2)

3) To let someone use your property in return for money (rent out). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#m3)

4) (old) A tear or split in cloth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#m4)

5) Rent can also be the past tense of rend, meaning tore something into pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Tearing one's clothes was the custom of grief or horror, and is still done today by mourners in the practice called keriah. In the primary lessons: Common in money maths: rent per week or month, multiply to find a yearly total, or share rent between flatmates. In everyday life families rent homes, cars, skates, films. Phrases: «pay the rent», «for rent», «rent out», «rent-free», «rent a car».

### examples

- And they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city. (Torah GEN.44.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#x1)
- And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. (Torah GEN.37.34, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#x2)
- And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes. (Torah GEN.37.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#x3)
- Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried: 'Treason, treason.' (Prophets 2KI.11.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#x4)
- Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said: 'Treason, treason.' (Writings 2CH.23.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#x5)
- And these wine-skins, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they are rent. (Prophets JOS.9.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#x6)
- We pay the rent every month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#x7)
- They rent a small flat in the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#x8)
- We rented bikes at the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#x9)
- The rent is 600 dollars a month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#x10)
- If three friends share a rent of 900 dollars, each pays 300. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#x11)
- Mr Lee rents out his garage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#x12)
- The house is for rent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#x13)
- We rented skates at the ice rink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#x14)
- I threw myself on the ground and rent my clothes and tore my hair with sorrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/rent/#x15)

### note

Regular verb: rented. Uncountable usually (the rent is high), but «rents» for many places. In the UK people also say «let» (a house to let); in the USA «for rent». In maths: rent per month × number of months = total; total rent ÷ number of people = each share.

### In the corpora

- [And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1208/)
- [And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1214/)
- [And they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1451/)
- [And these wine-skins, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they are rent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.203/)
- [And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his robe, and it rent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.411/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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