even

«even» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: just, exactly — 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

just, exactly

part of speech

adverb

meaning for a pupil

exactly or just; 'even as' means 'just as'. tree →

how it differs from today

Today 'even' usually means 'also' or 'surprisingly'; 'even as' meaning 'just as' is old, and 'even now' here means 'still'.

examples

• Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad. (Torah NUM.36.10, JPS 1917) tree →
• She did not understand even now. (Peter Pan) tree →
• All these translations are out of print and are rarely found even in well regulated libraries. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →

primary record

even

tests

manual 10.2; corpora 2238 (Torah 270, tales 1947, Sefer Yetzirah 21); EWT 231; ratio 0.5 (Torah alone 1.4); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said: 'Lord, wilt Thou slay even a righteous nation?
• Said he not himself unto me: She is my sister? and she, even she herself said: He is my brother.
• And Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
• Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth; in the morning he devoureth the prey, and at even he divideth the spoil.'
• And she opened it, and saw it, even the child; and behold a boy that wept.

Trees and pragmatics

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