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# village

«village» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a small group of houses and people in the country…** — 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

noun (village, villages)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A village is a small group of houses and people in the country, smaller than a town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#m1)

2) The village can also mean all the people who live there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#m2)

3) A «global village» means the whole world feels close because people can talk across it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah, a village is a small unwalled settlement near a bigger town. In Joshua the villages belong to a city and are listed with it when the land is divided among the tribes. In the primary lessons: a setting; houses, people or animals in a village are counted; distances between villages; in everyday life and stories a village has a few shops, a church or a school, a green or a pub, and everyone knows everyone; in history and geography villages grow into towns and cities

### examples

- And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the villages thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair. (Torah NUM.32.41, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x1)
- And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name. (Torah NUM.32.42, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x2)
- these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their nations. (Torah GEN.25.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x3)
- Ekron, with its towns and its villages; (Prophets JOS.15.45, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x4)
- Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages. (Prophets JOS.15.57, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x5)
- and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages: (Prophets JOS.19.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x6)
- The village has 85 houses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x7)
- 320 people live in the village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x8)
- The next village is 7 km away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x9)
- Two villages have 150 and 230 people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x10)
- Grandma lives in a quiet village by the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x11)
- The whole village came to the summer fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x12)
- The village shop sells bread, milk and stamps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x13)
- In the story, a dragon flew over the sleeping village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x14)
- Many villages in the valley have fewer than 500 people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x15)
- In the village all were still asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/village/#x16)

### note

A word of the story; the numbers are for houses, people or distances. Size order: village < town < city. People in two villages: add them. «Villager» is a person who lives in a village.

### In the corpora

- [And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the villages thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1189/)
- [And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1190/)
- [This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and the villages thereof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.338/)
- [This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and the villages thereof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.343/)
- [and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon; all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.398/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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