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# harlot

«harlot» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **prostitute** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

prostitute

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

a woman who sells her body for sex. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/harlot/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say prostitute.

### examples

- And they said: 'Should one deal with our sister as with a harlot?' (Torah GEN.34.31, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/harlot/#x1)
- When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; for she had covered her face. (Torah GEN.38.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/harlot/#x2)
- There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. (Torah DEU.23.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/harlot/#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 they said: 'Should one deal with our sister as with a harlot?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1087/)
- [When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; for she had covered her face.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1231/)
- [There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.631/)
- [Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of a harlot; and Gilead begot Jephthah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.337/)
- [And Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.468/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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