[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/ripe.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / ripe [← R](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/R/) # ripe «ripe» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **ready to eat or pick; it is soft, sweet and has its full…** — 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 adjective (ripe, riper, ripest) ### meaning for a pupil 1) Ripe fruit or grain is ready to eat or pick; it is soft, sweet and has its full colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/#m1) 2) Ripe can mean ready for something: «The time is ripe». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/#m2) 3) «A ripe old age» means a very old age. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/#m3) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah ripe fruit is linked with the first fruits that Israel brought to God. In Job "ripe age" means full old age, and Nahum speaks of first-ripe figs that fall at a shake. Interpretation: Tradition says the first ripe fruits, called bikkurim, were brought to the Temple and given to the priests as a thank-you offering. A "ripe age" is seen as a blessing of a long and full life, like grain gathered in its season. In the primary lessons: In maths: sorts fruit into ripe and not ripe; ripe and unripe add up to the total; fractions of the fruit that are ripe. In science: fruit ripens as starch turns to sugar; bananas give off a gas that ripens other fruit. In everyday life: picking ripe fruit, checking if an avocado is ripe. In stories: «ripe golden wheat». ### examples - and in the vine were three branches; and as it was budding, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes, (Torah GEN.40.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/#x1) - And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land.' — Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes. — (Torah NUM.13.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/#x2) - The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thy house may eat thereof. (Torah NUM.18.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/#x3) - Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished. (Writings JOB.30.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/#x4) - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a ripe age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season. (Writings JOB.5.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/#x5) - All thy fortresses shall be like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater. (Prophets NAM.3.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/#x6) - Of 30 bananas, 18 are ripe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/#x7) - How many tomatoes are not ripe? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/#x8) - 3/4 of the apples are ripe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/#x9) - She picked only the ripe strawberries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/#x10) - A ripe banana is yellow with brown spots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/#x11) - Green tomatoes are not ripe yet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/#x12) - Put the pears in a paper bag to help them ripen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/#x13) - My great-grandpa lived to a ripe old age. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/#x14) - The time was ripe for a change. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/#x15) - ‘Oh! shake me, shake me, my apples are all quite ripe.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/#x16) ### note Ripe + not ripe = all; a fraction ripe means the rest is not ripe. Trap: the question may ask about the unripe ones. Opposite: unripe. «Ripen» is the verb. Overripe means too ripe, starting to go bad. Safety: some unripe fruit can upset your stomach. ### In the corpora - [Thou shalt come to thy grave in a ripe age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.116/) - [Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.750/) - [And the first colour: chervOnyi, red — the colour of a football shirt, a fire engine or a ripe tomato.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/4/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «ripe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ripe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.