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# prince

«prince» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **chief, leader** — 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

chief, leader

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A leader or chief, such as the head of a tribe in the Torah, or a chief spirit in Sefer Yetzirah. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/prince/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today a prince is a son or grandson of a king or queen; the old sense of a chief or leader is not used now, and the sentences use it that way.

### examples

- On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer: (Torah NUM.7.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/prince/#x1)
- "But why not?" inquired the prince. (The Arabian Nights Entertainments) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/prince/#x2)
- It illuminates the splendor of all lights, and causes a supply of influence to emanate from the Prince of countenances. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/prince/#x3)

### primary record

prince

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 4348 (Torah 45, tales 4301, Sefer Yetzirah 2); EWT 2; ratio 98.5 (Torah alone 21.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.328/)
- [and the tribe of Zebulun; the prince of the children of Zebulun being Eliab the son of Helon,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.60/)
- [and the tribe of Gad; the prince of the children of Gad being Eliasaph the son of Reuel,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.67/)
- [and next unto him shall be the tribe of Manasseh; the prince of the children of Manasseh being Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.73/)
- [and the tribe of Benjamin; the prince of the children of Benjamin being Abidan the son of Gideoni,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.75/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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