seethe
kind
archaic sense
modern equivalent
boil
part of speech
verb, base form
meaning for a pupil
To cook something by boiling it in liquid. tree →
how it differs from today
Today seethe mostly means to be very angry or to bubble with strong feeling. The sentences use the old sense of boiling food.
examples
- Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk. (Torah EXO.23.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.' (Torah EXO.34.26, JPS 1917) tree →
- And thou shalt take the ram of consecration, and seethe its flesh in a holy place. (Torah EXO.29.31, JPS 1917) tree →
primary record
seethe
tests
manual 10.4; corpora 6 (Torah 6, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.7 (Torah alone 14.0); Wiktionary no archaic label
In the corpora
- Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.
- And thou shalt take the ram of consecration, and seethe its flesh in a holy place.
- Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.'
- Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.
- Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot and burning rushes.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «seethe» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.