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# tent

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

tent

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A dwelling made of cloth stretched over poles, where a family lived. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/tent/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today a tent is camping equipment. In these texts it was a family's home, lived in for long periods, not just a camping shelter.

### examples

- And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond Migdal-eder. (Torah GEN.35.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/tent/#x1)
- He rose and stalked to the tent-door. (Irish Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/tent/#x2)
- And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not. (Torah GEN.31.34, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/tent/#x3)

### primary record

tent

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 278 (Torah 205, tales 73, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 6; ratio 2.4 (Torah alone 36.8); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.109/)
- [And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.238/)
- [God enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.244/)
- [And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.338/)
- [Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountain of Gilead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.962/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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