brethren

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

brothers; kinsmen

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

Brothers, or relatives. tree →

how it differs from today

Today we say brothers; "brethren" is old or used in church. The sentences use the old word for brothers.

examples

• And he said: 'I seek my brethren. (Torah GEN.37.16, JPS 1917) tree →
• Immortal fame!" when he himself fell down, and lay quietly among his slain brethren. (Tanglewood Tales) tree →
• And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew him not. (Torah GEN.42.8, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

brethren

tests

manual 6; corpora 147 (Torah 123, tales 24, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 16.7 (Torah alone 287.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
• And he said: Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
• And he said: 'I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly.
• Be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee.
• Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountain of Gilead.

Trees and pragmatics

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