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# abide

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

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

stay; live with

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To remain or stay somewhere for a time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/abide/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today "abide" mostly means to put up with something, as in "can't abide". Here it means to stay or remain, and the sentences use that old sense.

### examples

- And Laban said: 'It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man; abide with me.' (Torah GEN.29.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/abide/#x1)
- “Do you abide by it?” Goll demanded. (Irish Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/abide/#x2)
- And her brother and her mother said: 'Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.' (Torah GEN.24.55, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/abide/#x3)

### primary record

abide

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 36 (Torah 12, tales 24, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 4.1 (Torah alone 28.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [From Kibroth-hattaavah the people journeyed unto Hazeroth; and they abode at Hazeroth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.470/)
- [And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit harlotry with the daughters of Moab.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.894/)
- [So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.45/)
- [Gilead abode beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why doth he sojourn by the ships?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.139/)
- [Asher dwelt at the shore of the sea, and abideth by its bays.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.140/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «abide» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/abide/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.