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# flesh

«flesh» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **body, meat** — 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

body, meat

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

the body of a person or animal, or the living skin and muscle; here also a general word for all living creatures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/flesh/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today flesh is the soft part of the body under the skin; in these texts it also means living bodies and all living things, and 'flesh' as food is now called meat.

### examples

- But whensoever raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean. (Torah LEV.13.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/flesh/#x1)
- I smell Russian flesh![188] Who's there?" (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/flesh/#x2)
- The Two Covenants, by the Word or Spirit, and by the Flesh, made by Jehovah with Abraham, Genesis XVII. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/flesh/#x3)

### primary record

flesh

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 285 (Torah 134, tales 148, Sefer Yetzirah 3); EWT 2; ratio 6.5 (Torah alone 62.5); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.58/)
- [And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.161/)
- [And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.186/)
- [Only flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.221/)
- [And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.437/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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