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# hearken

«hearken» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **listen, obey** — 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

listen, obey

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

to listen carefully; in the Torah it means to obey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hearken/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today it is old-fashioned for listen; the obey sense in the first sentence is also old.

### examples

- And they shall hearken to thy voice. (Torah EXO.3.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hearken/#x1)
- "Well, then, hearken now!" cried the Tsar. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hearken/#x2)
- But the LORD hearkened unto me that time also. (Torah DEU.9.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hearken/#x3)

### primary record

hearken

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 73 (Torah 57, tales 16, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 8.3 (Torah alone 133.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast hearkened to My voice.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.594/)
- [because that Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.738/)
- [Now therefore, my son, hearken to my voice according to that which I command thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.781/)
- [Now therefore, my son, hearken to my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.821/)
- [and that Jacob hearkened to his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.832/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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