replenish

«replenish» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: fill — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

fill

part of speech

verb, base form

meaning for a pupil

To fill the earth with people, so that it is full of living things again. tree →

how it differs from today

Today replenish means to fill something up again or restore a supply. The Torah sense is to fill completely with people, not to refill. The Uncle Remus sentence uses today's sense.

examples

• And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth. (Torah GEN.9.1, JPS 1917) tree →
• The little boy sat perfectly quiet, betraying no impatience when Uncle Remus paused to hunt, first in one pocket and then in another, for enough crumbs of tobacco to replenish his pipe. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) tree →

primary record

replenish

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 3 (Torah 2, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.
• For I have satiated the weary soul, and every pining soul have I replenished.

Trees and pragmatics

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