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# descend

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

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

come down, fall; come from

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To go or come down, or to fall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/descend/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today it means going down. In the Sefer Yetzirah sentence it means coming forth from a source, which is an old sense.

### examples

- And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. (Torah EXO.34.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/descend/#x1)
- "To-morrow the sun will shine, or the rain descend. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/descend/#x2)
- This way of thinking about language imbues the Hebrew root itself with a certain metaphysical reality, an entity from which more concrete instantions of individual words may ontologically descend and ultimately crystallize into concrete speech or material reality. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/descend/#x3)

### primary record

descend

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 33 (Torah 0, tales 32, Sefer Yetzirah 1); EWT 0; ratio 3.7 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1011/)
- [And it shall hail, in the downfall of the forest; but the city shall descend into the valley.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.679/)
- [For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; his wealth shall not descend after him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.813/)
- [Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.864/)
- [Birds are living dinosaurs, descended from small feathered meat-eating dinosaurs, and there are about 11,000 kinds of birds alive today.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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