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# hallow

«hallow» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **make holy** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

make holy

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

to make something holy, or to honour it as holy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hallow/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say make holy or treat as holy.

### examples

- And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his. (Torah NUM.5.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hallow/#x1)
- And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it He rested from all His work which God in creating had made. (Torah GEN.2.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hallow/#x2)
- And ye shall not profane My holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD who hallow you, (Torah LEV.22.32, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hallow/#x3)

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 9 (Torah 9, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.0 (Torah alone 21.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.199/)
- [The hallowed stones are poured out at the head of every street.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.122/)
- [And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasuries of the house of God, and over the treasuries of the hallowed things.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.926/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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