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# brethren

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

brothers; kinsmen

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Brothers, or relatives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/brethren/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today we say brothers; "brethren" is old or used in church. The sentences use the old word for brothers.

### examples

- And he said: 'I seek my brethren. (Torah GEN.37.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/brethren/#x1)
- Immortal fame!" when he himself fell down, and lay quietly among his slain brethren. (Tanglewood Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/brethren/#x2)
- And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew him not. (Torah GEN.42.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/brethren/#x3)

### primary record

brethren

### tests

manual 6; corpora 147 (Torah 123, tales 24, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 16.7 (Torah alone 287.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.239/)
- [And he said: Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.242/)
- [And he said: 'I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.485/)
- [Be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.805/)
- [Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountain of Gilead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.962/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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