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# ear

«ear» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **ear; listen (for "give ear")** — 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

ear; listen (for "give ear")

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

One of the two parts on the sides of the head used for hearing; "give ear" means listen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/ear/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today "give ear" is old-fashioned and we say "listen." The first sentence uses that old phrase; the other two use the body part as we do.

### examples

- Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth. (Torah DEU.32.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/ear/#x1)
- Then she whispered in his ear: (The Red Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/ear/#x2)
- From thence further go and reckon what the mouth cannot express and the ear cannot hear. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/ear/#x3)

### primary record

ear

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 376 (Torah 19, tales 342, Sefer Yetzirah 15); EWT 2; ratio 8.5 (Torah alone 8.9); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And, behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1303/)
- [And the thin ears swallowed up the seven rank and full ears.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1304/)
- [And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up upon one stalk, full and good.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1322/)
- [And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1323/)
- [And the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1324/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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