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# navel

noun (a navel, navels)

«navel» 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. The small hollow or bump in the middle of your tummy, left where the umbilical cord was joined before you were born; your belly button. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navel/#m1)
2. (figurative) The centre of something, as in "the navel of the world". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navel/#m2)

### In the lessons

Used in science and health (the umbilical cord carries food and oxygen from mother to baby) and in everyday talk, though children usually say "belly button". Phrases: "navel orange" (an orange with a little bump like a navel), "navel-gazing" (thinking too much about yourself).

### Examples

- Your navel is where the umbilical cord was. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navel/#x1)
- Most people call the navel a belly button. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navel/#x2)
- A navel orange has a small bump at one end. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navel/#x3)
- Some people have an "innie" navel and some an "outie". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navel/#x4)
- Mammals have navels, but birds hatched from eggs do not. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navel/#x5)
- Stop navel-gazing and help us! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navel/#x6)
- The yoga teacher told us to breathe into the navel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navel/#x7)

### Note

Homophone trap: "naval" (to do with a navy and ships) sounds the same but is spelled with an "a". Countable.

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: In Proverbs it stands for the whole body being healthy. Tradition reads the verse as saying that following wisdom and the Torah brings health. In Ezekiel the uncut navel shows how helpless Jerusalem was at its birth, before God cared for her. In the primary lessons: Used in science and health (the umbilical cord carries food and oxygen from mother to baby) and in everyday talk, though children usually say "belly button". Phrases: "navel orange" (an orange with a little bump like a navel), "navel-gazing" (thinking too much about yourself).

### Examples

- It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. (Writings PRO.3.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/navel/#x1)
- Thy navel is like a round goblet, wherein no mingled wine is wanting; thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies. (Writings SNG.7.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/navel/#x2)
- And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water for cleansing; thou was not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. (Prophets EZK.16.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/navel/#x3)

### Note

Homophone trap: "naval" (to do with a navy and ships) sounds the same but is spelled with an "a". Countable.

## On Mova

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