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# hurt

verb (hurt, hurts, hurt, hurting); adjective (hurt — injured or upset); noun (hurt — pain, sadness)

«hurt» 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. To cause pain or injury to a body: "I hurt my knee." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#m1)
2. To feel pain: "My head hurts." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#m2)
3. To make someone feel sad or upset: "Her words hurt me." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#m3)
4. To cause damage or harm: "It won't hurt to ask." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#m4)

### In the lessons

In safety lessons: if you are hurt, tell an adult; never hurt animals or people; if someone hurts you, it is not your fault, and you should tell. In feelings: words can hurt as well as hits. Phrases: get hurt, hurt feelings, it won't hurt to, badly hurt.

### Examples

- I fell and hurt my arm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#x1)
- My tummy hurts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#x2)
- Be careful or you'll get hurt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#x3)
- Mean words can hurt people's feelings. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#x4)
- Never hurt an animal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#x5)
- Does it hurt when I press here? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#x6)
- It won't hurt to ask the teacher. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#x7)
- She felt hurt when nobody played with her. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#x8)
- "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurt/#x9)

### Note

Past tense and past participle are both "hurt" (not "hurted"). "Hurt" and "injured" are close; injured is for bodies only. Telling an adult when someone hurts you is not tattling; it is staying safe.

## In Jewish tradition

Used much as in everyday English. It means to harm or injure, and it can also mean a borrowed animal that is injured.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the law of borrowed animals as teaching careful responsibility for another person's property. A borrower who was not with the animal when it was hurt had to pay the owner back.

### Examples

- And your father hath mocked me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. (Torah GEN.31.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hurt/#x1)
- And if a man borrow aught of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof not being with it, he shall surely make restitution. (Torah EXO.22.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hurt/#x2)
- And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD: 'Respect not Thou their offering; I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.' (Torah NUM.16.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hurt/#x3)
- Woe is me for my hurt! (Prophets JER.10.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hurt/#x4)
- Why criest thou for thy hurt, that thy pain is incurable? (Prophets JER.30.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hurt/#x5)
- His feet they hurt with fetters, his person was laid in iron; (Writings PSA.105.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hurt/#x6)

### Note

Past tense and past participle are both "hurt" (not "hurted"). "Hurt" and "injured" are close; injured is for bodies only. Telling an adult when someone hurts you is not tattling; it is staying safe.

## On Mova

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