pomegranate

Everyday

A round fruit with a tough red skin and many juicy red seeds inside. tree →

In the lessons

in fairy tales, a tree or fruit is given as a gift or argued over as the most beautiful thing

Examples

• THE POMEGRANATE and Apple-Tree disputed as to which was the most beautiful. tree →
• Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. tree →
• She cut the pomegranate and ate the red seeds one by one. tree →

Note

nothing for maths; counting the seeds is a count, but the word carries no operation

In Jewish tradition

One of the fruits of the Promised Land. Pomegranates were also sewn on the hem of the high priest's robe, alternating with golden bells.

Interpretation. Tradition says a pomegranate holds 613 seeds, like the commandments. It is eaten on Rosh Hashanah in hope that our good deeds will be many.

Examples

• a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey; (Torah DEU.8.8, JPS 1917) tree →
• And they made upon the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen. (Torah EXO.39.24, JPS 1917) tree →
• a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts of the robe round about. (Torah EXO.28.34, JPS 1917) tree →
• Thy temples are like a pomegranate split open behind thy veil. (Writings SNG.6.7, JPS 1917) tree →
• Thy shoots are a park of pomegranates, with precious fruits; henna with spikenard plants, (Writings SNG.4.13, JPS 1917) tree →
• And there were ninety and six pomegranates on the outside; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network round about. (Prophets JER.52.23, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

nothing for maths; counting the seeds is a count, but the word carries no operation