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# seventy

number (seventy)

«seventy» 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. Seventy is the number 70, which is seven tens. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventy/#m1)
2. The seventies are the numbers from 70 to 79, or a person's age from 70 to 79. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventy/#m2)

### In the lessons

Maths: a number of things, money or an age; counting in tens. Everyday: speed limits, prices, ages of grandparents.

### Examples

- A ticket costs seventy cents. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventy/#x1)
- Seventy people came to the show. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventy/#x2)
- Grandpa is seventy years old. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventy/#x3)
- What is seventy minus twenty? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventy/#x4)
- Seventy is seven tens. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventy/#x5)
- The speed limit here is seventy kilometers an hour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventy/#x6)
- Grandma is in her seventies. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventy/#x7)
- "We have only seventy-five pigs," said the Princess, "and with me that's seventy-six!" [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seventy/#x8)

### Note

A number word; read it as 70. Seventy-one, seventy-two ... with a hyphen. Trap: do not confuse seventy (70) with seventeen (17). Not «sevendy».

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Seventy is a round number in tradition, for example the seventy nations of the world and the seventy elders; Lamech's "seventy and sevenfold" is read as boasting of far greater vengeance. In the primary lessons: Maths: a number of things, money or an age; counting in tens. Everyday: speed limits, prices, ages of grandparents.

### Examples

- And Kenan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalalel. (Torah GEN.5.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventy/#x1)
- If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. (Torah GEN.4.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventy/#x2)
- And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. (Torah GEN.11.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventy/#x3)
- Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. (Prophets 2KI.10.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventy/#x4)
- The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two. (Writings EZR.2.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventy/#x5)
- The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five. (Writings EZR.2.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/seventy/#x6)

### Note

A number word; read it as 70. Seventy-one, seventy-two ... with a hyphen. Trap: do not confuse seventy (70) with seventeen (17). Not «sevendy».

## On Mova

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