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# mount

«mount» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **mountain; get on (a horse)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

mountain; get on (a horse)

### part of speech

verb and noun (old sense: mountain)

### meaning for a pupil

In the Torah, "mount" means a mountain; in the fairy tale it means to climb on, as on a horse or pony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/mount/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today "mount" as a noun is rare except in names, and the Torah sense "mountain" is old; the fairy-tale sense (to get on) is still in use.

### examples

- And the LORD spoke unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying: (Torah LEV.25.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/mount/#x1)
- Mount quickly and let us go. (The Adventures of Pinocchio) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/mount/#x2)
- And they journeyed from Kehelah, and pitched in mount Shepher. (Torah NUM.33.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/mount/#x3)

### primary record

mount

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 278 (Torah 95, tales 183, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 4; ratio 3.5 (Torah alone 24.6); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.358/)
- [And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their garments.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.542/)
- [And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.545/)
- [And Moses rose up, and Joshua his minister; and Moses went up into the mount of God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.695/)
- [And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.697/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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