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# inhabitant

noun (an inhabitant, inhabitants)

«inhabitant» 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. An inhabitant is a person who lives in a place, such as a town, island or country. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabitant/#m1)
2. An animal that lives in a particular place or habitat: the inhabitants of the pond. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabitant/#m2)

### In the lessons

In geography and maths: «the town has 5,000 inhabitants», «the inhabitants of the island». In science: animals that are inhabitants of a habitat. It tells the reader who lives somewhere.

### Examples

- The village has only three hundred inhabitants. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabitant/#x1)
- The first inhabitants of the island were fishermen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabitant/#x2)
- Frogs and newts are inhabitants of the pond. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabitant/#x3)
- The inhabitants of the town came out to watch the parade. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabitant/#x4)
- How many inhabitants does your city have? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabitant/#x5)
- The castle's only inhabitants now are bats. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabitant/#x6)
- One of the inhabitants of Novgorod was angling in the brook Chorny. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhabitant/#x7)

### Note

Countable. Verb: inhabit (to live in). Trap: «inhabited» means people live there; «uninhabited» means nobody lives there; «inhabitable» and «habitable» both mean fit to live in. In maths problems, number of inhabitants = population.

## In Jewish tradition

A person living in a land, often one of the peoples of Canaan. In the later books it also names the people of a town or country, such as Keilah or Tyre, and even the creatures of the deep or the shades below the waters. In the primary lessons: In geography and maths: «the town has 5,000 inhabitants», «the inhabitants of the island». In science: animals that are inhabitants of a habitat. It tells the reader who lives somewhere.

### Examples

- The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. (Torah EXO.15.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#x1)
- These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah, (Torah GEN.36.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#x2)
- And the land was defiled, therefore I did visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomited out her inhabitants. (Torah LEV.18.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#x3)
- So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. (Prophets 1SA.23.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#x4)
- The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof. (Writings JOB.26.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#x5)
- Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; (Writings PSA.83.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/inhabitant/#x6)

### Note

Countable. Verb: inhabit (to live in). Trap: «inhabited» means people live there; «uninhabited» means nobody lives there; «inhabitable» and «habitable» both mean fit to live in. In maths problems, number of inhabitants = population.

## On Mova

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