chronicle

«chronicle» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a written record of events in the order they happened — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a chronicle, chronicles); verb (chronicle, chronicles, chronicled, chronicling)

meaning for a pupil

1) A chronicle is a written record of events in the order they happened. tree →

2) To chronicle means to record events in order. tree →

3) «Chronicle» is a common name for newspapers and story series (The Chronicles of Narnia). tree →

4) (Bible) Chronicles (1 and 2 Chronicles) are books of the Old Testament that tell the history of the kings of Israel and Judah. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A written record of events, especially the official record of the kings of Judah and Israel. "Chronicles" is also the name of a book of the Writings. Interpretation: Tradition holds that these royal records were separate books now lost. The Book of Chronicles retells Israel's history with an emphasis on the Temple and the line of David. In the primary lessons: In history, monks wrote chronicles like the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. In English lessons, a chronological report puts events in time order (from the same Greek word «chronos», time).

examples

• Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? (Prophets 2KI.14.18, JPS 1917) tree →
• Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. (Prophets 2KI.15.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? (Prophets 2KI.1.18, JPS 1917) tree →
• The monks kept a chronicle of every battle. tree →
• Her diary chronicles a year at sea. tree →
• I'm reading The Chronicles of Narnia. tree →
• The book of Chronicles is in the Old Testament. tree →
• The film chronicles the life of a famous footballer. tree →
• The town newspaper is called the Chronicle. tree →

note

Countable. Related: chronological (in time order). Spelling: chr- like «Christmas» sound /k/.

In the corpora

• Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
• Kyiv was an important town by the 10th century, and Moscow is first mentioned in a chronicle in 1147.

Trees and pragmatics

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