bind

«bind» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: tie up; hold back — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

tie up; hold back

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

To tie something tightly, or to hold back and restrain. tree →

how it differs from today

Today we use it for tying things. The third sentence uses the old sense of restraining chaos, which is different.

examples

• And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. (Torah DEU.6.8, JPS 1917) tree →
• Take him home and bind his wounds. (The Adventures of Pinocchio) tree →
• In this interpretation, they are ten elemental entities or properties which bind or restrain primordial תֹּהוּ tohu, 'chaos, void, waste(land)' [Genesis 1:2], allowing structure and order to exist in creation. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →

primary record

bind

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 58 (Torah 7, tales 50, Sefer Yetzirah 1); EWT 0; ratio 6.6 (Torah alone 16.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
• And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.
• 'Bind up the testimony, seal the instruction among My disciples.'
• None deemeth of thy wound that it may be bound up; thou hast no healing medicines.
• Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

Trees and pragmatics

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