beating

noun (beatings)

«beating» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

A beating is a hitting with a stick or hands as a punishment. tree →
A beating is also a heavy defeat, as in «our team took a beating». tree →
Beating can mean the regular throb of a heart. tree →

In the lessons

in tales, cruel punishment; in sport, a loss; in stories, a heart full of kind feeling

Examples

The bully gave him a beating. tree →
Our team took a beating in the match. tree →
I felt my heart's beating fast. tree →
She had a beating from her husband. tree →

Note

nothing for maths

In Jewish tradition

It can mean knocking olives off a tree with a stick, or threshing grain by hitting it.

Interpretation. Isaiah compares the few left after judgment to olives left after the beating of the tree. Gideon was threshing wheat in secret when the angel came, and tradition notes God chose a frightened man to be a hero.

Examples

For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth, among the peoples, as at the beating of an olive-tree, as at the gleanings when the vintage is done. (Prophets ISA.24.13, JPS 1917) tree →
And the angel of the LORD came, and sat under the terebinth which was in Ophrah, that belonged unto Joash the Abiezrite; and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. (Prophets JDG.6.11, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

nothing for maths

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «beating» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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Trees and pragmatics of «beating» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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