tent
kind
archaic sense
modern equivalent
tent
part of speech
noun
meaning for a pupil
A dwelling made of cloth stretched over poles, where a family lived. tree →
how it differs from today
Today a tent is camping equipment. In these texts it was a family's home, lived in for long periods, not just a camping shelter.
examples
- And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond Migdal-eder. (Torah GEN.35.21, JPS 1917) tree →
- He rose and stalked to the tent-door. (Irish Fairy Tales) tree →
- And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not. (Torah GEN.31.34, JPS 1917) tree →
primary record
tent
tests
rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 278 (Torah 205, tales 73, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 6; ratio 2.4 (Torah alone 36.8); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)
In the corpora
- And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle.
- And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
- God enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant.
- And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
- Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountain of Gilead.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «tent» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.