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# sett

«sett» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **the home of a badger: a set of underground tunnels and…** — 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

noun (a sett, setts); also spelt set

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sett is the home of a badger: a set of underground tunnels and rooms dug into the earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sett/#m1)

2) A sett is also a rectangular stone block used to pave old streets (often wrongly called cobbles). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sett/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it is just an old spelling form of the English verb "set," as in "Thou settest" meaning You set or place. Interpretation: Tradition reads these verses as God arranging all things, from the mountains to the fates of the wicked, and putting a watch over the sea. In the primary lessons: In nature lessons in the UK and Ireland, badger setts are found in woods and hedges, with several entrances and big piles of dug earth; badgers and their setts are protected by law, so you must not disturb them. In old towns, roads made of setts are bumpy to ride a bike on.

### examples

- Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that Thou settest a watch over me? (Writings JOB.7.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sett/#x1)
- Who by Thy strength settest fast the mountains, who art girded about with might; (Writings PSA.65.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sett/#x2)
- Surely Thou settest them in slippery places; Thou hurlest them down to utter ruin. (Writings PSA.73.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sett/#x3)
- Badgers live in an underground sett. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sett/#x4)
- We saw a badger come out of its sett at dusk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sett/#x5)
- The sett had five holes and big piles of earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sett/#x6)
- It is against the law to damage a badger sett. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sett/#x7)
- The old high street is paved with granite setts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sett/#x8)
- Bikes rattle over the stone setts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sett/#x9)
- Some setts are used by badgers for hundreds of years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sett/#x10)

### note

Spelt with double t to tell it apart from "set". It sounds the same as "set". Countable: setts. A fox's home is an earth or den; a rabbit's is a burrow or warren.

### In the corpora

- [The Badger is closer to life: real badgers dig huge old homes called setts and stay underground through cold spells.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs/3/)
- [Badgers are very clean: they drag in fresh grass and bracken for bedding and dig special toilet pits away from the sett.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs/9/)
- [Badgers are protected by law in Britain, so nobody may harm a badger or block or dig into a sett.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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