harlot

«harlot» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: prostitute — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

prostitute

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

a woman who sells her body for sex. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say prostitute.

examples

• And they said: 'Should one deal with our sister as with a harlot?' (Torah GEN.34.31, JPS 1917) tree →
• When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; for she had covered her face. (Torah GEN.38.15, JPS 1917) tree →
• There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. (Torah DEU.23.17, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

manual 10.4; corpora 13 (Torah 13, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.5 (Torah alone 30.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And they said: 'Should one deal with our sister as with a harlot?'
• When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; for she had covered her face.
• There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
• Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of a harlot; and Gilead begot Jephthah.
• And Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her.

Trees and pragmatics

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