victual
kind
archaic word
modern equivalent
food
part of speech
noun
meaning for a pupil
Food, or supplies of food for a journey. tree →
how it differs from today
No longer used; today we say food.
examples
- And to his father he sent in like manner ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and victual for his father by the way. (Torah GEN.45.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual. (Torah EXO.12.39, JPS 1917) tree →
primary record
food
tests
manual 10.4; corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)
In the corpora
- And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.
- Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase.
- And he inquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.'
- And he fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and oil and wine.
- The Rat: «He's always rather low and despondent when he's wanting his victuals.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «victual» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.