nun

«nun» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: holy sister; name of Joshua's father; now — 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

holy sister; name of Joshua's father; now

part of speech

noun (also a name and a German word for "now")

meaning for a pupil

In the Torah "Nun" is a name, the father of Joshua; in the German text "nun" means "now". tree →

how it differs from today

Today a nun is a woman in a religious community; the Torah and German uses are not the same, so the word is used in an old or foreign sense.

examples

• And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. (Torah NUM.13.16, JPS 1917) tree →
• In the German translation (p. 188) Wie dies nun die Kuh sah, die einst seine Mutter gewesen war. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• Dalet-Tet-Lamed-Nun-Taw, with the tip of the tongue, serving with voice. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →

primary record

nun

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 41 (Torah 16, tales 14, Sefer Yetzirah 11); EWT 1; ratio 1.5 (Torah alone 12.4); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
• And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
• save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed the LORD.
• And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being a hundred and ten years old.
• Nun his son, Joshua his son.

Trees and pragmatics

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