bowels

«bowels» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: inner parts; womb; depths — 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

inner parts; womb; depths

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

The inside of the body, the womb, or the deep inside of the earth. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it usually means the intestines. Here it means the insides in general, the womb, or the deep part of the earth.

examples

• and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to fall away'; and the woman shall say: 'Amen, Amen.' (Torah NUM.5.22, JPS 1917) tree →
• Fifty doors flew open before him, and at length he reached a long flight of steps which seemed to lead into the bowels of the earth. (The Lilac Fairy Book) tree →
• And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying: 'This man shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.' (Torah GEN.15.4, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

manual 10.4; corpora 11 (Torah 3, tales 8, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.2 (Torah alone 7.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• My bowels, my bowels!
• Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
• and twenty bowels of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.
• And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
• "Number two" means a poo, emptying the bowels; children and parents use it.

Trees and pragmatics

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