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# heed

«heed» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **attention** — 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

attention

### part of speech

verb (heed, heeds, heeded, heeding); also noun

### meaning for a pupil

To pay attention to something and act on it, such as a warning or a command. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/heed/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today we say "pay attention" or "listen". The sense is the same in these sentences, but "take heed to" is an old way of saying "be careful".

### examples

- Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest; (Torah DEU.12.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/heed/#x1)
- But nobody heeded what he said. (Celtic Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/heed/#x2)
- Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon thy land. (Torah DEU.12.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/heed/#x3)

### primary record

heed

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 121 (Torah 17, tales 104, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 1; ratio 4.6 (Torah alone 13.2); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And he answered and said: 'Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD putteth in my mouth?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.847/)
- [Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.334/)
- [Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.363/)
- [Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon thy land.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.369/)
- [Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.642/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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