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# firstling

«firstling» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **first-born animal** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

first-born animal

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

the first young animal born to a flock or herd, often given to God. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/firstling/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say the first-born animal or first-born lamb.

### examples

- And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. (Torah GEN.4.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/firstling/#x1)
- All that openeth the womb is Mine; and of all thy cattle thou shalt sanctify the males, the firstlings of ox and sheep. (Torah EXO.34.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/firstling/#x2)
- And the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck. (Torah EXO.34.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/firstling/#x3)

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 13 (Torah 13, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.5 (Torah alone 30.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.90/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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