hallow

«hallow» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: make holy — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

make holy

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

to make something holy, or to honour it as holy. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say make holy or treat as holy.

examples

• And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his. (Torah NUM.5.10, JPS 1917) tree →
• And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it He rested from all His work which God in creating had made. (Torah GEN.2.3, JPS 1917) tree →
• And ye shall not profane My holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD who hallow you, (Torah LEV.22.32, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

manual 10.4; corpora 9 (Torah 9, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.0 (Torah alone 21.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
• The hallowed stones are poured out at the head of every street.
• And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasuries of the house of God, and over the treasuries of the hallowed things.

Trees and pragmatics

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