flesh
kind
archaic sense
modern equivalent
body, meat
part of speech
noun
meaning for a pupil
the body of a person or animal, or the living skin and muscle; here also a general word for all living creatures. tree →
how it differs from today
Today flesh is the soft part of the body under the skin; in these texts it also means living bodies and all living things, and 'flesh' as food is now called meat.
examples
- But whensoever raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean. (Torah LEV.13.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- I smell Russian flesh![188] Who's there?" (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
- The Two Covenants, by the Word or Spirit, and by the Flesh, made by Jehovah with Abraham, Genesis XVII. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
primary record
flesh
tests
manual 10.3; corpora 285 (Torah 134, tales 148, Sefer Yetzirah 3); EWT 2; ratio 6.5 (Torah alone 62.5); Wiktionary no archaic label
In the corpora
- Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
- And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
- And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.
- Only flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
- And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «flesh» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.