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# atonement

«atonement» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **making amends; making up for a wrong** — 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

making amends; making up for a wrong

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

In these texts, a gift or offering to God that makes up for a sin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/atonement/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today it means making up for a wrong you have done to someone. The old sense is a religious offering for sin.

### examples

- one he-goat, to make atonement for you. (Torah NUM.28.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/atonement/#x1)
- and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you. (Torah NUM.28.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/atonement/#x2)
- and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you; (Torah NUM.29.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/atonement/#x3)

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 80 (Torah 79, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 9.1 (Torah alone 184.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [As hath been done this day, so the LORD hath commanded to do, to make atonement for you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.208/)
- [and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1029/)
- [one he-goat, to make atonement for you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1037/)
- [and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1043/)
- [Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; so shall they consecrate it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1171/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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