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# molten

«molten» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **melted, cast in metal** — 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

melted, cast in metal

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Made by pouring melted metal into a mould, so it is a solid thing shaped by heat; here it means a metal idol or gold that is melted and cast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/molten/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today it means melted by great heat, as in molten lava; in the Torah "molten gods" are idols cast from metal, which is a sense today's readers would not expect.

### examples

- Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. (Torah EXO.34.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/molten/#x1)
- “Why tears, beloved one?” cried the gnome anxiously; “every tear of yours falls upon my heart like a drop of molten gold. (The Brown Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/molten/#x2)
- Turn ye not unto the idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God. (Torah LEV.19.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/molten/#x3)

### primary record

molten

### tests

manual 6; corpora 16 (Torah 8, tales 8, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 1; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 6.2); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1023/)
- [Turn ye not unto the idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.545/)
- [Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.906/)
- [Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.982/)
- [They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped a molten image.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1925/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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