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# thereabout

«thereabout» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **In or near that place** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

In or near that place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/thereabout/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means the land around the Levite cities, the open pasture for their animals. Interpretation: The Levites had no portion of land, so they were given cities and fields. The tradition reads this as a way to support those who serve the community.

### examples

- and they spoke unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying: 'The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the open land thereabout for our cattle.' (Prophets JOS.21.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/thereabout/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

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