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# seventeen

«seventeen» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **the number 17, one more than sixteen** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

number (seventeen)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Seventeen is the number 17, one more than sixteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventeen/#m1)

2) Seventeen is ten and seven. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventeen/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a number of things or an age; 17 is a prime number. Everyday: ages (a seventeen-year-old), prices, scores.

### examples

- And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty and seven years. (Torah GEN.47.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventeen/#x1)
- The Arabic alphabet consisted originally of the following seventeen letters:") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventeen/#x2)
- It was apparently originally invented to represent the Assyrian-Babylonian language, which consisted of seventeen or eighteen sounds. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventeen/#x3)
- The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen. (Writings EZR.2.39, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventeen/#x4)
- And I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel mine uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver. (Prophets JER.32.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventeen/#x5)
- In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years. (Prophets 2KI.13.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventeen/#x6)
- Seventeen birds sat on the wire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventeen/#x7)
- He is seventeen years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventeen/#x8)
- She has seventeen dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventeen/#x9)
- How much are seventeen and five? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventeen/#x10)
- Seventeen is a prime number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventeen/#x11)
- My sister is seventeen and learning to drive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventeen/#x12)
- There are seventeen pupils in our reading group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventeen/#x13)
- She was now seventeen, and he nineteen years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventeen/#x14)

### note

A number word; read it as 17. Trap: do not confuse seventeen (17) with seventy (70): «-teen» means plus ten, «-ty» means tens. Stress: sev-en-TEEN.

### Trees and pragmatics

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