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# hewn

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

cut

### part of speech

verb, past participle of hew; also adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Cut or shaped with an axe, tool or saw. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hewn/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today we usually say "cut" or "carved", and "hewed" is the more common form. "Hewn" is an old past participle, used here as a form of "hew".

### examples

- And if thou make Me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast profaned it. (Torah EXO.20.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hewn/#x1)
- Fail in this, and you shall be hewn in a thousand pieces.’ (The Pink Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hewn/#x2)
- and houses full of all good things, which thou didst not fill, and cisterns hewn out, which thou the didst not hew, vineyards and olive-trees, which thou didst not plant, and thou shalt eat and be satisfied — (Torah DEU.6.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hewn/#x3)

### primary record

hewn

### tests

manual 6; corpora 19 (Torah 2, tales 15, Sefer Yetzirah 2); EWT 0; ratio 2.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with hewn stone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.187/)
- [And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.224/)
- [And above were costly stones, after the measure of hewn stones, and cedar-wood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.239/)
- [Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.240/)
- [He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.62/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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