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# nun

«nun» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **holy sister; name of Joshua's father; now** — 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

holy sister; name of Joshua's father; now

### part of speech

noun (also a name and a German word for "now")

### meaning for a pupil

In the Torah "Nun" is a name, the father of Joshua; in the German text "nun" means "now". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/nun/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today a nun is a woman in a religious community; the Torah and German uses are not the same, so the word is used in an old or foreign sense.

### examples

- And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. (Torah NUM.13.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/nun/#x1)
- In the German translation (p. 188) Wie dies nun die Kuh sah, die einst seine Mutter gewesen war. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/nun/#x2)
- Dalet-Tet-Lamed-Nun-Taw, with the tip of the tongue, serving with voice. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/nun/#x3)

### primary record

nun

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 41 (Torah 16, tales 14, Sefer Yetzirah 11); EWT 1; ratio 1.5 (Torah alone 12.4); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.494/)
- [And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.503/)
- [save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1160/)
- [And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being a hundred and ten years old.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.45/)
- [Nun his son, Joshua his son.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.348/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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