cleave
part of speech
verb (cleaves, cleaved or cleft, cleaved or cleft, cleaving) (old use)
meaning for a pupil
1) (old use) To split or cut right through something with a heavy blow: cleave the wood with an axe. tree →
2) To stick firmly to something: cleave to the truth. tree →
sense in the lessons
in old tales, a heavy blow splits an enemy down to the chest
examples
- But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day. (Torah DEU.4.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh. (Torah GEN.2.24, JPS 1917) tree →
- And his soul did cleave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke comfortingly unto the damsel. (Torah GEN.34.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thou dost cleave the earth with rivers. (Prophets HAB.3.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thou didst cleave fountain and brook; Thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers. (Writings PSA.74.15, JPS 1917) tree →
- I cleave unto Thy testimonies; O LORD, put me not to shame. (Writings PSA.119.31, JPS 1917) tree →
- The knight cried, «Cleave him to the brisket!» tree →
- The axe cleaved the log in two. tree →
- In old tales the hero could cleave a rock with one blow. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
- Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
- And his soul did cleave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke comfortingly unto the damsel.
- But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.
- but cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day;
- Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cleave» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.