[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/body/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [B](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/b/) / body # body noun (body, bodies) «body» 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. All of a person or an animal: head, arms, legs and everything inside. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#m1) 2. The main part of a person or animal, not the head, arms or legs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#m2) 3. A dead person or animal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#m3) 4. The main part of something, like the body of a letter or a car. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#m4) 5. An object or a group: a body of water, a heavenly body, the student body. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#m5) ### In the lessons In science, the human body has parts and systems (bones, muscles, heart, lungs, brain) that work together; healthy food, sleep and exercise keep it strong. In safety: your body belongs to you; private parts are private. In science, "body" can mean any object, like a planet. Phrases: body parts, body of water, human body, body language, somebody, nobody. ### Examples - The heart pumps blood around the body. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#x1) - Exercise keeps your body strong. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#x2) - The body of an insect has three parts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#x3) - Your body belongs to you. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#x4) - A lake is a body of water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#x5) - Write the body of your letter here. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#x6) - Drink water to help your body cool down. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#x7) - The car's body was painted red. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#x8) - She was wriggling her body in distress. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#x9) ### Note Plural "bodies" (y → ies). "Somebody", "nobody", "anybody", "everybody" mean a person. "Body language" means messages we send with face and movement. Your body needs sleep to grow. ## In Jewish tradition In the Torah it often means a dead body, which makes a person unclean. It also means the living body of a person, as in Psalms and Proverbs, and "of his body" means one's own children. **Interpretation.** Touching a dead body brings the strongest uncleanness, so priests and Nazirites must avoid it. Tradition sees this as honouring life as holy and keeping death away from the place of worship. ### Examples - He that toucheth the dead, even any man's dead body, shall be unclean seven days; (Torah NUM.19.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/body/#x1) - neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; (Torah LEV.21.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/body/#x2) - All the days that he consecrateth himself unto the LORD he shall not come near to a dead body. (Torah NUM.6.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/body/#x3) - For there are no pangs at their death, and their body is sound. (Writings PSA.73.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/body/#x4) - And thou moan, when thine end cometh, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, (Writings PRO.5.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/body/#x5) - And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten; for he had many wives. (Prophets JDG.8.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/body/#x6) ### Note Plural "bodies" (y → ies). "Somebody", "nobody", "anybody", "everybody" mean a person. "Body language" means messages we send with face and movement. Your body needs sleep to grow. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «body» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«body» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/body.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «body» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/body/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«body» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/body.html) on Mova free.