beeves

«beeves» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: cows; oxen; cattle — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

cows; oxen; cattle

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

Cattle, especially cows and oxen. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say cows or cattle.

examples

• and threescore and twelve thousand beeves, (Torah NUM.31.33, JPS 1917) tree →
• and thirty and six thousand beeves, (Torah NUM.31.44, JPS 1917) tree →
• And the beeves were thirty and six thousand, of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve. (Torah NUM.31.38, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 6 (Torah 6, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.7 (Torah alone 14.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• and threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
• And the beeves were thirty and six thousand, of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.
• and thirty and six thousand beeves,

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «beeves» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.