sing

«sing» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: sing — 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

sing

part of speech

verb, base form

meaning for a pupil

To make music with your voice; in the Torah, to sing a song of praise to someone. tree →

how it differs from today

The word means the same; the Torah phrase "sing unto" uses the old word unto and means to sing to, in praise. The other sentences use today's sense.

examples

• Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well — sing ye unto it — (Torah NUM.21.17, JPS 1917) tree →
• What song could the Ranunculus sing? (Andersen's Fairy Tales) tree →
• And Miriam sang unto them: Sing ye to the LORD, for He is highly exalted: the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea. (Torah EXO.15.21, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

sing

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 366 (Torah 5, tales 361, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 41.5 (Torah alone 11.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well — sing ye unto it —
• Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying:
• Therefore I will give thanks unto Thee, O LORD, among the nations, and will sing praises unto Thy name.
• Let me sing of my well-beloved, a song of my beloved touching his vineyard.
• Sing unto the LORD; for He hath done gloriously; this is made known in all the earth.

Trees and pragmatics

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