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# dim

«dim» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **faint, not seeing clearly** — 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

faint, not seeing clearly

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Not bright, or not able to see well; in one sentence it is short for "diminutive." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/dim/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today it means not bright. In the Russian sentence "dim." is an abbreviation for "diminutive," meaning a small form of a word, which is an old use.

### examples

- Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. (Torah GEN.48.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/dim/#x1)
- It is called in the original a Kukla (dim. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/dim/#x2)
- And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. (Torah DEU.34.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/dim/#x3)

### primary record

dim

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 49 (Torah 8, tales 41, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 5.6 (Torah alone 18.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1585/)
- [And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.975/)
- [Mine eye is dimmed because of vexation; it waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.62/)
- [Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.433/)
- [How is the gold become dim!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.120/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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