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# crown

«crown» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **crown; top, highest point** — 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

crown; top, highest point

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A ring of gold or jewels worn on the head by a king or queen; in the Sefer Yetzirah sentence it means the highest point of a list. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/crown/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today it means a king's or queen's ornament. In the Sefer Yetzirah sentence "the highest Crown" means the top of a series of spiritual levels.

### examples

- And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereto a crown of gold round about. (Torah EXO.37.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/crown/#x1)
- "But hadn't my great-great-however-much-it-is-grandfather a crown?" (The Book of Dragons) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/crown/#x2)
- The highest Crown is Kether, the First Sephira, the first emanation from the Ain Suph Aur, the Limit- less LightC (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/crown/#x3)

### primary record

crown

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 346 (Torah 17, tales 305, Sefer Yetzirah 24); EWT 0; ratio 39.2 (Torah alone 39.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.724/)
- [And thou shalt set the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.847/)
- [And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1124/)
- [And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereto a crown of gold round about.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1133/)
- [The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.561/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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