eventide

«eventide» in Mova's judaism dictionary: an old word for evening, the time when the day is ending — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (old use)

meaning for a pupil

Eventide is an old word for evening, the time when the day is ending. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It is the evening time, as when Isaac went out to meditate and when the dove came back to Noah. Interpretation: The rabbis took Isaac's meditating in the field as the origin of the afternoon prayer, Minchah. In the primary lessons: in fairy tales and old stories, eventide is the quiet time of evening when people rest

examples

• And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide; and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming. (Torah GEN.24.63, JPS 1917) tree →
• And the dove came in to him at eventide; and lo in her mouth an olive-leaf freshly plucked; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. (Torah GEN.8.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• At eventide behold terror; and before the morning they are not. (Prophets ISA.17.14, JPS 1917) tree →
• At eventide the family lay down to sleep. tree →
• The goatherd drove his flock home at eventide. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• At eventide behold terror; and before the morning they are not.

Trees and pragmatics

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