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# baggage

noun (baggage — uncountable)

«baggage» 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

1. The bags and suitcases you take when you travel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#m1)
2. Worries, bad memories or old problems that a person carries with them from the past (said as a picture). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#m2)
3. Bag and baggage means taking everything you own and leaving a place completely. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life it is used at airports: «baggage reclaim», «check in your baggage». In stories, «emotional baggage» tells the reader a character is carrying old hurts. In safety, never leave baggage unattended and never carry a bag for a stranger.

### Examples

- We collected our baggage from the moving belt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#x1)
- Each passenger may bring one piece of baggage. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#x2)
- Do not leave your baggage alone at the station. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#x3)
- The baggage was too heavy, so we paid extra. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#x4)
- Go to baggage reclaim after you land. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#x5)
- He carried a lot of baggage from his old school, like worry about being teased. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#x6)
- Our baggage arrived on the wrong plane! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#x7)
- He takes bag and baggage, and, presto! is gone like a letter into the post. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/#x8)

### Note

Uncountable: «some baggage», «a piece of baggage», never «a baggage» or «baggages». Similar to luggage (more common in the UK); Americans often say baggage. «Hand baggage» or «carry-on» goes into the plane cabin with you.

## In Jewish tradition

Here it means the goods, tools and supplies an army or traveling group carried with it, often kept in a camp guarded by a keeper. Saul hid among such baggage when he was chosen king.

**Interpretation.** Saul's hiding among the baggage is read as showing his modesty, or his fear of the heavy duty of kingship. Even so, God told the people where he was.

### Examples

- He is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmas he layeth up his baggage; (Prophets ISA.10.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/baggage/#x1)
- And David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brethren. (Prophets 1SA.17.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/baggage/#x2)
- Therefore they asked of the LORD further: 'Is there yet a man come hither?' And the LORD answered: 'Behold, he hath hid himself among the baggage.' (Prophets 1SA.10.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/baggage/#x3)

### Note

Uncountable: «some baggage», «a piece of baggage», never «a baggage» or «baggages». Similar to luggage (more common in the UK); Americans often say baggage. «Hand baggage» or «carry-on» goes into the plane cabin with you.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «baggage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baggage/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«baggage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/baggage.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «baggage» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/baggage/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«baggage» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/baggage.html) on Mova free.