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# bless

«bless» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **bless; (exclamation) bless me** — 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

bless; (exclamation) bless me

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To ask God to protect someone or bring them good. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bless/#m1)

### how it differs from today

The second sentence uses it as an exclamation of surprise, which is old-fashioned dialect. The other sentences match today.

### examples

- The LORD bless thee, and keep thee; (Torah NUM.6.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bless/#x1)
- "Bless gracious, honey, dat he didn't. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bless/#x2)
- And Balak said unto Balaam: 'Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.' (Torah NUM.23.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bless/#x3)

### primary record

bless

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 132 (Torah 55, tales 77, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 4; ratio 1.7 (Torah alone 14.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.118/)
- [And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.218/)
- [And he said: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.243/)
- [And he blessed him, and said: 'Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.371/)
- [seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.460/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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