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To lend something a quality is to add it: flowers lend the room a happy look. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lend/#m4) ### In the lessons In maths it is an action that takes away from one person for now and adds to another; the lender gets it back later. In everyday life: lending books, pencils, bikes; a bank lends money and charges interest. Phrases: «lend a hand», «lend an ear» (listen), «lend me your pencil». ### Examples - Sam lends Tom 5 dollars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lend/#x1) - She lent 3 books to her friend. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lend/#x2) - How many books does she have now? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lend/#x3) - He will get 5 dollars back next week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lend/#x4) - Could you lend me a pencil, please? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lend/#x5) - The library lends books for three weeks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lend/#x6) - The bank lent my parents money to buy the house. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lend/#x7) - Can you lend a hand with these bags? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lend/#x8) - I lent my bike to my cousin and he scratched it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lend/#x9) - Lend me thy coat, Shere Khan. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lend/#x10) ### Note Past and past participle: «lent» (not «lended»). Confusion: «lend» means give for a while, «borrow» means take for a while: I lend you my book, you borrow my book. Do not say «Can you borrow me...». Maths: lending takes away from the lender until it is paid back; check who has the thing now. ## In Jewish tradition The Torah commands Israelites to lend freely to the poor and not to take a pledge by force from a neighbour's house. **Interpretation.** The Rabbis count lending to the needy as a great act of kindness, even greater than giving charity, and the law protects the borrower's dignity. ### Examples - Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee. (Torah DEU.24.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lend/#x1) - When thou dost lend thy neighbour any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. (Torah DEU.24.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lend/#x2) - but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth. (Torah DEU.15.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lend/#x3) - Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said unto them: 'Ye lend upon pledge, every one to his brother.' And I held a great assembly against them. (Writings NEH.5.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lend/#x4) ### Note Past and past participle: «lent» (not «lended»). Confusion: «lend» means give for a while, «borrow» means take for a while: I lend you my book, you borrow my book. Do not say «Can you borrow me...». Maths: lending takes away from the lender until it is paid back; check who has the thing now. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «lend» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lend/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«lend» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lend.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «lend» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lend/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«lend» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/lend.html) on Mova free.