scribe
part of speech
noun (a scribe, scribes); verb (scribe — rare)
meaning for a pupil
1) (history) A person whose job was to write or copy documents by hand, before printing. tree →
2) (Bible) In the New Testament, the scribes were experts in Jewish law. tree →
3) (school) An adult who writes down a pupil's answers in a test. tree →
4) (informal, humorous) A writer or journalist. tree →
sense in the lessons
In history lessons, Egyptian scribes wrote hieroglyphs; monks were scribes copying Bibles. In the Bible, Jesus spoke with the scribes and Pharisees. In school, a scribe helps a child who cannot write easily. Phrases: «act as a scribe», «the scribes and Pharisees».
examples
- Ancient Egyptian scribes wrote on papyrus. tree →
- The monk worked as a scribe copying the Bible. tree →
- In the Bible, Jesus argued with the scribes. tree →
- A scribe helped Sam write his test answers. tree →
- You can be the scribe for your group. tree →
- The king's scribe wrote down every word. tree →
- By his orders this story and the others I had told him were written by his scribes in letters of gold, and laid up among his treasures. tree →
note
Countable. Related: «scribble», «script». In group work the «scribe» is the person who writes notes.
In the corpora
- Scribes pressed a cut reed into wet clay, making wedge-shaped marks called cuneiform.
- Scribes pressed a cut reed into wet clay, making wedge-shaped marks; the word cuneiform means wedge-shaped.
- and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Seraiah was scribe;
- and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
- Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «scribe» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.