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# save

«save» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **except** — 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

except

### part of speech

preposition (also conjunction), meaning except

### meaning for a pupil

Except; apart from. ("None save the LORD" means "no one except the LORD.") [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/save/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today save mostly means rescue or keep money; as except it is old-fashioned. The first two sentences use except; the third uses rescue, as today.

### examples

- He that sacrificeth unto the gods, save unto the LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed. (Torah EXO.22.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/save/#x1)
- Save de pacin' mar' fer Sunday. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/save/#x2)
- For he found her in the field; the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her. (Torah DEU.22.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/save/#x3)

### primary record

save

### tests

manual 9; corpora 404 (Torah 17, tales 386, Sefer Yetzirah 1); EWT 26; ratio 0.9 (Torah alone 0.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And God sent me before you to give you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive for a great deliverance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1481/)
- [And they said: 'Thou hast saved our lives.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1567/)
- [But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.18/)
- [(22-19) He that sacrificeth unto the gods, save unto the LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.635/)
- [And Moses said unto them: 'Have ye saved all the women alive?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1109/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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