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# even

«even» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **just, exactly** — 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

just, exactly

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

exactly or just; 'even as' means 'just as'. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/even/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today 'even' usually means 'also' or 'surprisingly'; 'even as' meaning 'just as' is old, and 'even now' here means 'still'.

### examples

- Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad. (Torah NUM.36.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/even/#x1)
- She did not understand even now. (Peter Pan) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/even/#x2)
- All these translations are out of print and are rarely found even in well regulated libraries. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/even/#x3)

### primary record

even

### tests

manual 10.2; corpora 2238 (Torah 270, tales 1947, Sefer Yetzirah 21); EWT 231; ratio 0.5 (Torah alone 1.4); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said: 'Lord, wilt Thou slay even a righteous nation?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.524/)
- [Said he not himself unto me: She is my sister? and she, even she herself said: He is my brother.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.525/)
- [And Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.607/)
- [Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth; in the morning he devoureth the prey, and at even he divideth the spoil.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1626/)
- [And she opened it, and saw it, even the child; and behold a boy that wept.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.29/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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