[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lent/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [L](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/l/) / lent # lent verb (past tense and past participle of lend: lend, lent, lent); noun, proper (Lent — with a capital L) «lent» 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. Past of «lend»: gave something to someone for a short time, expecting to get it back (I lent him my pen). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#m1) 2. Lent: in the Christian calendar, the forty days before Easter, when many Christians pray and give something up, like sweets. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#m2) ### In the lessons In everyday life «lent» is the past of «lend»: borrowing and lending at school (pencils, books, money). In religious education, Lent is a time of fasting and preparing for Easter; it starts on Ash Wednesday and Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday) is the day before. Phrases: lent a hand (helped), lent to, give up for Lent. ### Examples - I lent my rubber to Jack and he never gave it back. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#x1) - The library lent us ten books for the project. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#x2) - She lent a hand with the washing up. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#x3) - For Lent, my cousin gave up chocolate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#x4) - Lent lasts forty days, until Easter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#x5) - We eat pancakes the day before Lent begins. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#x6) - Who lent you that bike? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#x7) - Thereupon the rich man lent him twenty roubles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/#x8) ### Note Lend/borrow trap: you LEND something to someone (they get it); you BORROW something from someone (you get it). «I lent him my book» = he has it now. Lend, lent, lent — never «lended». Lent (the season) has a capital L. ## In Jewish tradition Israelites may not lend to a fellow Israelite on interest, and debts lent are released in the seventh year. **Interpretation.** The Rabbis call this release the shemittah of debts, and later teachers built rules around it to protect the poor. ### Examples - Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother: interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest. (Torah DEU.23.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#x1) - And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbour; he shall not exact it of his neighbour and his brother; because the LORD'S release hath been proclaimed. (Torah DEU.15.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#x2) - And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, have lent them money and corn. (Writings NEH.5.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#x3) - I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them doth curse me. (Prophets JER.15.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#x4) - therefore I also have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he is lent to the LORD.' And he worshipped the LORD there. (Prophets 1SA.1.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/#x5) ### Note Lend/borrow trap: you LEND something to someone (they get it); you BORROW something from someone (you get it). «I lent him my book» = he has it now. Lend, lent, lent — never «lended». Lent (the season) has a capital L. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «lent» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lent/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«lent» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lent.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «lent» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lent/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«lent» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/lent.html) on Mova free.