[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/tall.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/) / tall [← T](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/T/) # tall «tall» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **high from the bottom to the top: a giraffe is very tall** — 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 (tall, taller, tallest) ### meaning for a pupil 1) Tall means high from the bottom to the top: a giraffe is very tall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#m1) 2) Tall is used to give height: he is 150 cm tall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#m2) 3) A tall story (tall tale) is one that is hard to believe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#m3) 4) In informal speech, "tall" can be short for "at all", as in "not saying anything at all". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#m4) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It describes giant peoples like the Anakim, whose size frightened the Israelites. Interpretation: The spies' fear of the tall Anakim is read as lack of faith. Tradition teaches that God overcame such peoples for Israel. In the primary lessons: Maths: height measures and comparisons (how tall, taller than, the tallest); ordering by height; bar graphs of heights. Science: the tallest animals, trees and buildings. Everyday: «stand tall» (be proud and brave). ### examples - The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; (Torah DEU.2.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#x1) - a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead; (Torah DEU.2.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#x2) - a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say: 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?' (Torah DEU.9.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#x3) - Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and of glossy skin, to a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide! (Prophets ISA.18.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#x4) - The tree is 12 meters tall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#x5) - Tom is 5 cm taller than Ben. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#x6) - Who is the tallest? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#x7) - How tall is the tower? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#x8) - Giraffes are the tallest animals on Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#x9) - Line up from shortest to tallest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#x10) - Grandpa told a tall story about a fish as big as a boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#x11) - Sunflowers can grow taller than a man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/#x12) ### note Comparative taller, superlative tallest. «Taller than» compares heights: add the difference to get the taller one. Trap: «Ben is 5 cm shorter than Tom» means subtract from Tom, even though no «taller» appears. Use «tall» for people, trees and buildings; «high» for mountains and things far above the ground. ### In the corpora - [The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.56/) - [The Mona Lisa is about 77 centimetres tall and 53 centimetres wide; Guernica is almost 8 metres wide.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/42-olympiad-picture-puzzles/12/) - [Long legs let cranes wade in marshes and tall grass, and a long bill probes the mud for food.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/13/) - [Buttress roots spread out like walls around many rainforest trees and hold the tall tree up in thin soil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/14/) - [Wheat is a tall grass whose seeds, the grains, are ground into flour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/1/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «tall» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tall/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.