hearken

«hearken» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: listen, obey — 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

listen, obey

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

to listen carefully; in the Torah it means to obey. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it is old-fashioned for listen; the obey sense in the first sentence is also old.

examples

• And they shall hearken to thy voice. (Torah EXO.3.18, JPS 1917) tree →
• "Well, then, hearken now!" cried the Tsar. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →
• But the LORD hearkened unto me that time also. (Torah DEU.9.19, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

hearken

tests

manual 10.4; corpora 73 (Torah 57, tales 16, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 8.3 (Torah alone 133.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast hearkened to My voice.'
• because that Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.'
• Now therefore, my son, hearken to my voice according to that which I command thee.
• Now therefore, my son, hearken to my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
• and that Jacob hearkened to his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram;

Trees and pragmatics

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