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# beaten

verb (past participle of beat: beaten); adjective (beaten)

«beaten» 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. Beaten is the form of "beat" after have or be: lost to someone in a game ("We were beaten 3–0"). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#m1)
2. Beaten means hit many times: "The traveller was beaten by robbers." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#m2)
3. Beaten (cooking) means mixed hard with a fork or whisk: "beaten eggs". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#m3)
4. Beaten (adjective) can mean tired and defeated, or flattened by walking, as in "a beaten path". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#m4)

### In the lessons

In sport and stories, being beaten is losing; good players learn from it. In the parable of the Good Samaritan the traveller is "beaten and left half dead". In cooking lessons, recipes ask for beaten eggs. Phrases: be beaten, beaten up (rude violence), off the beaten track (in a quiet, faraway place), can't be beaten (the best).

### Examples

- We were beaten by the other school, but we played well. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#x1)
- Robbers left the man beaten by the side of the road. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#x2)
- Add two beaten eggs to the flour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#x3)
- We walked along a beaten path through the woods. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#x4)
- Our cottage was off the beaten track. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#x5)
- This pizza can't be beaten! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#x6)
- Hitting people is never right; nobody should be beaten. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#x7)
- ‘Who has beaten you like this?’ asked the King. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#x8)

### Note

Verb forms: beat, beats, beat (past), beaten (past participle), beating. Trap: "We beat them" (past) vs "We were beaten" (passive). In sports scores, the first number is usually the winner's.

## In Jewish tradition

Hammered out of a single piece of metal. The cherubim and lampstand were made of beaten gold.

**Interpretation.** Beaten work is read as the finest craft, made without joining separate pieces. The lampstand is a single piece of gold, which stands for unity in the light of Israel.

### Examples

- And he made two cherubim of gold: of beaten work made he them, at the two ends of the ark-cover: (Torah EXO.37.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beaten/#x1)
- And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work shalt thou make them, at the two ends of the ark-cover. (Torah EXO.25.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beaten/#x2)
- Their knops and their branches shall be of one piece with it; the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold. (Torah EXO.25.36, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beaten/#x3)
- And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target. (Prophets 1KI.10.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beaten/#x4)
- And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target; (Writings 2CH.9.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beaten/#x5)
- And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. (Prophets JOS.8.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beaten/#x6)

### Note

Verb forms: beat, beats, beat (past), beaten (past participle), beating. Trap: "We beat them" (past) vs "We were beaten" (passive). In sports scores, the first number is usually the winner's.

## On Mova

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