bless

«bless» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: bless; (exclamation) bless me — 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

bless; (exclamation) bless me

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

To ask God to protect someone or bring them good. tree →

how it differs from today

The second sentence uses it as an exclamation of surprise, which is old-fashioned dialect. The other sentences match today.

examples

• The LORD bless thee, and keep thee; (Torah NUM.6.24, JPS 1917) tree →
• "Bless gracious, honey, dat he didn't. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) tree →
• And Balak said unto Balaam: 'Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.' (Torah NUM.23.25, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

bless

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 132 (Torah 55, tales 77, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 4; ratio 1.7 (Torah alone 14.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
• And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.
• And he said: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant.
• And he blessed him, and said: 'Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth;
• seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Trees and pragmatics

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