[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/fig/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [F](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/f/) / fig # fig noun (fig, figs); abbreviation (fig. = figure) «fig» 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 soft, sweet fruit with many tiny seeds inside, shaped like a small pear. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#m1) 2. The tree that this fruit grows on. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#m2) 3. (Bible) The fig tree appears in many Bible stories; Adam and Eve made clothes from fig leaves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#m3) 4. (abbreviation) «Fig.» is short for «figure», a numbered picture or diagram in a book. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#m4) 5. (informal, old-fashioned) Something worth nothing: «I don't give a fig». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#m5) ### In the lessons In science and textbooks «Fig. 3» means look at picture number 3. In cooking and nature lessons it is a fruit, fresh or dried. In Bible stories Jesus told a parable about a fig tree. Phrases: fig tree, fig leaf, dried figs, see Fig. 2, not care a fig. ### Examples - We ate fresh figs on holiday in Greece. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#x1) - The fig tree in the garden gives lots of fruit. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#x2) - Look at Fig. 4 to see the parts of a flower. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#x3) - In the Bible, Adam and Eve covered themselves with fig leaves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#x4) - Dried figs are sweet and chewy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#x5) - He doesn't care a fig about football. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#x6) - And here are sweet sauce, honey, raisins, green peas, and dry figs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#x7) ### Note Plural: figs. «Fig.» with a full stop is an abbreviation of «figure» and is read aloud as «figure». A «fig leaf» can also mean something used to hide an embarrassing fact. ## In Jewish tradition In the Torah the fig is one of the seven good foods of the Land of Israel, and fig leaves were the first clothes of Adam and Eve. **Interpretation.** Tradition counts the fig among the seven species that the land is praised for. Some sages guessed that the forbidden fruit may have been a fig. ### Examples - a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey; (Torah DEU.8.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fig/#x1) - And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles. (Torah GEN.3.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fig/#x2) - And they came unto the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it upon a pole between two; they took also of the pomegranates, and of the figs. — (Torah NUM.13.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fig/#x3) - And the trees said to the fig-tree: Come thou, and reign over us. (Prophets JDG.9.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fig/#x4) - He smote their vines also and their fig-trees; and broke the trees of their borders. (Writings PSA.105.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fig/#x5) - The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines in blossom give forth their fragrance. (Writings SNG.2.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fig/#x6) ### Note Plural: figs. «Fig.» with a full stop is an abbreviation of «figure» and is read aloud as «figure». A «fig leaf» can also mean something used to hide an embarrassing fact. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «fig» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«fig» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fig.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «fig» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fig/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«fig» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/fig.html) on Mova free.