spend

verb (spend, spends, spent, spending)

«spend» 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

To spend is to pay out money. tree →
To spend time is to use it doing something or being somewhere: «spend a day at the zoo». tree →

In the lessons

the same as pay: «How much does A spend» asks for all A paid: add the costs; money left = money at first − money spent; time spent is added like other times; phrases: «spend on», «spend time», «spend the night», «spend wisely»

Examples

How much does Anna spend? tree →
Sam spent 12 cents on sweets and 8 cents on a pen. tree →
Max spends 2 hours reading. tree →
We spent the weekend at Gran's. tree →
Don't spend all your pocket money at once. tree →
How much time do you spend on homework? tree →
She spent 5 dollars and saved 3. tree →
We spent the night in a tent. tree →
"Have you spent the night comfortably?" tree →

Note

Past: spent. «How much does A spend» asks for all A paid: add the costs. Money left = money at first − money spent. Opposite of spend: save.

In Jewish tradition

Here it means to use up completely, such as water or strength running out. Job also uses it for passing time: days spent without hope, or spent in prosperity.

Interpretation. God says He will use up His arrows, a picture of punishment. The water spent in Hagar's bottle is read as a time of great danger when God then showed her a well.

Examples

I will heap evils upon them; I will spend Mine arrows upon them; (Torah DEU.32.23, JPS 1917) tree →
And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. (Torah GEN.21.15, JPS 1917) tree →
And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield her produce, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit. (Torah LEV.26.20, JPS 1917) tree →
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. (Writings JOB.7.6, JPS 1917) tree →
They spend their days in prosperity, and peacefully they go down to the grave. (Writings JOB.21.13, JPS 1917) tree →
If they hearken and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. (Writings JOB.36.11, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Past: spent. «How much does A spend» asks for all A paid: add the costs. Money left = money at first − money spent. Opposite of spend: save.

On Mova

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

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