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# faint

«faint» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **weak, tired** — 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

weak, tired

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

weak, tired and nearly without strength, especially from hunger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/faint/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today faint means not strong or clear, or means passing out; here it means weak from hunger, and the second sentence uses the today's sense of passing out.

### examples

- And Jacob sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint. (Torah GEN.25.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/faint/#x1)
- The sickening smell made him faint. (Japanese Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/faint/#x2)
- And Esau said to Jacob: 'Let me swallow, I pray thee, some of this red, red pottage; for I am faint.' Therefore was his name called Edom. (Torah GEN.25.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/faint/#x3)

### primary record

faint

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 110 (Torah 5, tales 105, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 12.5 (Torah alone 11.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And Jacob sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.726/)
- [And they smote of the Philistines that day from Michmas to Aijalon; and the people were very faint.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.359/)
- [The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.5/)
- [The earth fainteth and fadeth away, the world faileth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do fail.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.490/)
- [He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might He increaseth strength.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.870/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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