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# spend

verb (spend, spends, spent, spending)

«spend» 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. To spend is to pay out money. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#m1)
2. To spend time is to use it doing something or being somewhere: «spend a day at the zoo». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#m2)

### In the lessons

the same as pay: «How much does A spend» asks for all A paid: add the costs; money left = money at first − money spent; time spent is added like other times; phrases: «spend on», «spend time», «spend the night», «spend wisely»

### Examples

- How much does Anna spend? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#x1)
- Sam spent 12 cents on sweets and 8 cents on a pen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#x2)
- Max spends 2 hours reading. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#x3)
- We spent the weekend at Gran's. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#x4)
- Don't spend all your pocket money at once. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#x5)
- How much time do you spend on homework? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#x6)
- She spent 5 dollars and saved 3. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#x7)
- We spent the night in a tent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#x8)
- "Have you spent the night comfortably?" [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#x9)

### Note

Past: spent. «How much does A spend» asks for all A paid: add the costs. Money left = money at first − money spent. Opposite of spend: save.

## In Jewish tradition

Here it means to use up completely, such as water or strength running out. Job also uses it for passing time: days spent without hope, or spent in prosperity.

**Interpretation.** God says He will use up His arrows, a picture of punishment. The water spent in Hagar's bottle is read as a time of great danger when God then showed her a well.

### Examples

- I will heap evils upon them; I will spend Mine arrows upon them; (Torah DEU.32.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spend/#x1)
- And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. (Torah GEN.21.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spend/#x2)
- And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield her produce, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit. (Torah LEV.26.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spend/#x3)
- My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. (Writings JOB.7.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spend/#x4)
- They spend their days in prosperity, and peacefully they go down to the grave. (Writings JOB.21.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spend/#x5)
- If they hearken and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. (Writings JOB.36.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/spend/#x6)

### Note

Past: spent. «How much does A spend» asks for all A paid: add the costs. Money left = money at first − money spent. Opposite of spend: save.

## On Mova

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