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# bind

«bind» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **tie up; hold back** — 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

tie up; hold back

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To tie something tightly, or to hold back and restrain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bind/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today we use it for tying things. The third sentence uses the old sense of restraining chaos, which is different.

### examples

- And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. (Torah DEU.6.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bind/#x1)
- Take him home and bind his wounds. (The Adventures of Pinocchio) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bind/#x2)
- In this interpretation, they are ten elemental entities or properties which bind or restrain primordial תֹּהוּ tohu, 'chaos, void, waste(land)' [Genesis 1:2], allowing structure and order to exist in creation. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bind/#x3)

### primary record

bind

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 58 (Torah 7, tales 50, Sefer Yetzirah 1); EWT 0; ratio 6.6 (Torah alone 16.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.344/)
- [And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.203/)
- ['Bind up the testimony, seal the instruction among My disciples.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.178/)
- [None deemeth of thy wound that it may be bound up; thou hast no healing medicines.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.820/)
- [Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1081/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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