soul

«soul» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: person, living being — 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

person, living being

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

The whole living person or creature; the self. tree →

how it differs from today

Today soul usually means the spirit inside a person, which may live on after death, or deep feeling. In Leviticus "my soul" means I myself, and "soul" means a living person; the poetry sentence uses today's sense.

examples

• And I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you. (Torah LEV.26.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• You have a soul for poetry. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• On another, it refers to something less tangible, approaching the kind of phantom essence implied by the English term ‘soul’. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →

primary record

soul

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 387 (Torah 88, tales 283, Sefer Yetzirah 16); EWT 2; ratio 8.8 (Torah alone 41.1); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.'
• And his soul did cleave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke comfortingly unto the damsel.
• And Hamor spoke with them, saying 'The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter.
• These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; all the souls were fourteen.
• And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt already.

Trees and pragmatics

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