glory

«glory» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: splendour, praise — 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

splendour, praise

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

great brightness, splendour and honour, especially of God; praise given to God. tree →

how it differs from today

Today glory means great fame or honour won by deeds; here it means God's splendour or the praise we give Him.

examples

• And he said: 'Show me, I pray Thee, Thy glory.' (Torah EXO.33.18, JPS 1917) tree →
• "Well, then, glory be to God! (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• The Thirteenth Path is named the Uniting Intelligence and is so called because it is itself the essence of Glory. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →

primary record

glory

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 126 (Torah 23, tales 85, Sefer Yetzirah 18); EWT 0; ratio 14.3 (Torah alone 53.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And there I will meet with the children of Israel; and the Tent shall be sanctified by My glory.
• And he said: 'Show me, I pray Thee, Thy glory.'
• Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
• But in very deed, as I live — and all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD —
• And she said: 'The glory is departed from Israel; for the ark of God is taken.'

Trees and pragmatics

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