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# occur

verb (occur, occurs, occurred, occurring)

«occur» 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. (formal) To happen, especially without being planned. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occur/#m1)
2. To be found or to exist somewhere. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occur/#m2)
3. occur to someone: to come into someone's mind. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occur/#m3)

### In the lessons

Formal exam word for "happen": "how many times does the number 3 occur?" means how many times it appears. In science: earthquakes occur along faults. Phrases: occur to, it occurred to me.

### Examples

- Accidents often occur in the kitchen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occur/#x1)
- How many times does the letter e occur in "sheep"? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occur/#x2)
- Earthquakes occur where plates meet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occur/#x3)
- It occurred to me that I had left my bag at school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occur/#x4)
- This kind of frog occurs only in the rainforest. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occur/#x5)
- The storm occurred during the night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/occur/#x6)

### Note

Double r in occurred, occurring, and occurrence (also double c). In a maths problem "occurs" usually asks you to count how many times something appears.

## In Jewish tradition

Formal exam word for "happen": "how many times does the number 3 occur?" means how many times it appears. In science: earthquakes occur along faults. Phrases: occur to, it occurred to me.

### Examples

- THU and BHU ; these two words occur in Genesis i. 2, and are translated '' waste and void." (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/occur/#x1)
- The Samaritans still to this day preserve a tradition allowing Resh to occur in both single and double forms, bearing a distinction comparable to the difference between the Spanish single r of pero and double rr of perro.\] Taw-Thaw. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/occur/#x2)
- The quoted title was given to the treatise apparently because of the following passage occurring therein: (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/occur/#x3)

### Note

Double r in occurred, occurring, and occurrence (also double c). In a maths problem "occurs" usually asks you to count how many times something appears.

## On Mova

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