consecrate
kind
archaic sense
modern equivalent
make holy, set apart as sacred
part of speech
verb
meaning for a pupil
To make something holy, or set it apart for God, often by a ceremony. tree →
how it differs from today
Today it means making something holy by a religious ceremony. The second sentence uses it for making a deed holy or sacred, which today's English would not say.
examples
- And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded thee; seven days shalt thou consecrate them. (Torah EXO.29.35, JPS 1917) tree →
- Your sister Anastasia is the most beautiful and most innocent of maidens, and she shall consecrate the deed. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
- And they shall eat those things wherewith atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy. (Torah EXO.29.33, JPS 1917) tree →
primary record
consecrate
tests
rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 9 (Torah 8, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.0 (Torah alone 18.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)
In the corpora
- All the days that he consecrateth himself unto the LORD he shall not come near to a dead body.
- And Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
- I have commanded My consecrated ones, yea, I have called My mighty ones for mine anger, even My proudly exulting ones.
- Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; so shall they consecrate it.
- Who then offereth willingly to consecrate himself this day unto the LORD?'
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «consecrate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.