[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/price/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [P](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/p/) / price # price noun (price, prices); verb (price, prices, priced, pricing) «price» 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 price is how much money you must pay to buy something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#m1) 2. To price something is to decide or mark how much it costs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#m2) 3. A price can be a bad thing you must accept to get something: «the price of fame». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#m3) ### In the lessons In maths: the cost of one item or a group; price changes, sales, comparisons; «price per», «total price», «sale price». In everyday life: price tags, comparing prices when shopping, «half price». In stories: «at any price», «a high price to pay». ### Examples - The price of a pen is 2 dollars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x1) - The price went down by 5 dollars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x2) - What is the total price of 3 books? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x3) - The sale price is half of the old price. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x4) - Look at the price tag before you buy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x5) - Prices go up when things are hard to get. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x6) - The shop priced the toys at 3 dollars each. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x7) - Which shop has the better price for apples? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x8) - He won, but at a price: he hurt his knee. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x9) - The price of the ox is twenty roubles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/#x10) ### Note Price of one × number = total cost. «Went down/up by» means subtract/add. Trap: price «for 3» is not the price of one. «Half price» = price ÷ 2. To compare deals, find the price of one (unit price). Do not confuse price (money) with prize (something you win). ## In Jewish tradition The Torah sets prices for redeeming a field or a person sold into slavery. The later books also use it for the worth of something, such as a good wife who is worth more than rubies, or the cost of buying water. **Interpretation.** The jubilee year counts the years left to work out the fair price. Proverbs' praise of a woman of valor is read as honoring her great worth, and Psalms and Lamentations use price for the shame of a people sold cheaply. ### Examples - Are we not accounted by him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our price. (Torah GEN.31.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/price/#x1) - If there be yet many years, according unto them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. (Torah LEV.25.51, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/price/#x2) - And if one man's ox hurt another's, so that it dieth; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it; and the dead also they shall divide. (Torah EXO.21.35, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/price/#x3) - Thou sellest Thy people for small gain, and hast not set their prices high. (Writings PSA.44.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/price/#x4) - A woman of valour who can find? for her price is far above rubies. (Writings PRO.31.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/price/#x5) - We have drunk our water for money; our wood cometh to us for price. (Writings LAM.5.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/price/#x6) ### Note Price of one × number = total cost. «Went down/up by» means subtract/add. Trap: price «for 3» is not the price of one. «Half price» = price ÷ 2. To compare deals, find the price of one (unit price). Do not confuse price (money) with prize (something you win). ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «price» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/price/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«price» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/price.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «price» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/price/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«price» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/price.html) on Mova free.