yea

«yea» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: yes; indeed — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

yes; indeed

part of speech

interjection; adverb

meaning for a pupil

Yes; or even, indeed. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it is an old word for "yes" and is rarely used; "yea" can also mean "indeed", as in the Torah sentence.

examples

• Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods; yea, for that they dealt proudly against them.' (Torah EXO.18.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• Such was my wish, yea such When hardly three feet high, I longed for much. (Andersen's Fairy Tales) tree →
• And he said unto the woman: 'Yea, hath God said: Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?' (Torah GEN.3.1, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

yea

tests

manual 10.2; corpora 13 (Torah 9, tales 4, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 3; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 3.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods; yea, for that they dealt proudly against them.'
• The wisest of her princesses answer her, yea, she returneth answer to herself:
• And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly; yea, He was seen upon the wings of the wind.
• Yea, thou hast lifted up thine eyes on high, even against the Holy One of Israel!
• I have commanded My consecrated ones, yea, I have called My mighty ones for mine anger, even My proudly exulting ones.

Trees and pragmatics

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