pen

noun (pen, pens); verb (pen, pens, penned, penning)

«pen» 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 pen is a tool for writing or drawing with ink. tree →
A pen is also a small fenced place for animals, like a sheep pen or pig pen. tree →
To pen is to write: «she penned a letter». tree →
To pen in animals is to shut them in a pen. tree →

In the lessons

In maths: a thing counted or bought; price per pen; also an animal pen (count the animals inside; fence around it is a perimeter). In school: «write in pen, not pencil». In farming: sheep pens, pig pens. In stories: a pen pal is a friend you write letters to.

Examples

She has 8 pens. tree →
Each pen costs 2 dollars. tree →
The pigs are in a pen. tree →
The pen has 4 sheep in it. tree →
Please write your name in blue pen. tree →
My pen ran out of ink. tree →
The farmer built a pen for the lambs. tree →
I have a pen pal in New Zealand. tree →
She penned a short poem. tree →

Note

A thing counted. Price per pen is a rate. Trap: a «pen» for animals is a place; count the animals inside. The fence around a pen is its perimeter. «Pen» and «pencil» are different: ink cannot be rubbed out.

In Jewish tradition

In Sefer Yetzirah it means a writing tool, used as a picture for how the tongue expresses what the mind thinks. In the Tanakh it is the tool of scribes and an iron pen cutting words in rock, and the tongue is called the pen of a ready writer.

Interpretation. Jeremiah's "vain pen of the scribes" is read as a charge that the scribes twisted the Torah. Job's wish for words cut in rock forever is read as longing for his words to last.

Examples

The tongue is, as it were, the descriptive pen of all the spiritual issues, and the genital parts are the originators of the corporeal substances. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
Lo, certainly in vain hath wrought the vain pen of the scribes. (Prophets JER.8.8, JPS 1917) tree →
That with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever! (Writings JOB.19.24, JPS 1917) tree →
My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter; I say: 'My work is concerning a king'; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. (Writings PSA.45.2, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

On Mova

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