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# sing

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

sing

### part of speech

verb, base form

### meaning for a pupil

To make music with your voice; in the Torah, to sing a song of praise to someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sing/#m1)

### how it differs from today

The word means the same; the Torah phrase "sing unto" uses the old word unto and means to sing to, in praise. The other sentences use today's sense.

### examples

- Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well — sing ye unto it — (Torah NUM.21.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sing/#x1)
- What song could the Ranunculus sing? (Andersen's Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sing/#x2)
- And Miriam sang unto them: Sing ye to the LORD, for He is highly exalted: the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea. (Torah EXO.15.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sing/#x3)

### primary record

sing

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 366 (Torah 5, tales 361, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 41.5 (Torah alone 11.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well — sing ye unto it —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.772/)
- [Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.119/)
- [Therefore I will give thanks unto Thee, O LORD, among the nations, and will sing praises unto Thy name.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.709/)
- [Let me sing of my well-beloved, a song of my beloved touching his vineyard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.89/)
- [Sing unto the LORD; for He hath done gloriously; this is made known in all the earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.273/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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