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# bottle

noun (bottle, bottles); verb (bottle, bottles, bottled)

«bottle» 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. A bottle is a container with a narrow neck for holding drinks or other liquids. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#m1)
2. A bottle can mean the drink in it: «He drank a bottle of juice». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#m2)
3. To bottle something is to put it into bottles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#m3)

### In the lessons

a container counted (bottles of water or soda) or a unit holding a set amount of liquid; in science we measure the capacity of a bottle in litres or millilitres; phrases: «a bottle of», «bottle cap», «water bottle», «plastic bottle», «recycle bottles»

### Examples

- A shop has 25 bottles of soda. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#x1)
- Each bottle holds 2 liters of water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#x2)
- He drank 3 bottles of juice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#x3)
- How many bottles are needed for 12 liters? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#x4)
- Bring a water bottle on the school trip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#x5)
- We recycle glass bottles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#x6)
- The baby drinks milk from a bottle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#x7)
- A message in a bottle washed up on the beach. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bottle/#x8)

### Note

A thing counted, or a container giving an amount per bottle (multiply). Trap: «bottle caps» are a different thing from bottles. Safety: never drink from a bottle if you do not know what is in it.

## In Jewish tradition

Here a bottle is a skin bag for carrying water, not glass. The prophets and Job also use it for a clay jar, and the psalmist asks God to keep his tears in a bottle.

**Interpretation.** Tradition sees Hagar's empty bottle as a picture of despair, which turned to hope when God opened her eyes to a well. In Psalms, God keeping tears in a bottle shows that He remembers every sorrow, and Job's "bottles of heaven" are the clouds that pour rain.

### Examples

- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bottle/#x1)
- And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. (Torah GEN.21.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bottle/#x2)
- Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven, (Writings JOB.38.37, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bottle/#x3)
- Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, (Prophets JER.19.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bottle/#x4)
- Thou has counted my wanderings; put Thou my tears into Thy bottle; are they not in Thy book? (Writings PSA.56.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bottle/#x5)

### Note

A thing counted, or a container giving an amount per bottle (multiply). Trap: «bottle caps» are a different thing from bottles. Safety: never drink from a bottle if you do not know what is in it.

## On Mova

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