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# voice

«voice» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **voice, command** — 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

voice, command

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The sound made when speaking; in "hearken to thy voice" it means a command or word that must be obeyed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/V/voice/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today "voice" is only the sound you make. The old sense also covers a command or word, as in "hearken to thy voice," which means obey.

### examples

- And they shall hearken to thy voice. (Torah EXO.3.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/V/voice/#x1)
- “Boat ahoy!” again came the voice. (Peter Pan) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/V/voice/#x2)
- The Voice, Spirit and Word are QUL, RUCh. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/V/voice/#x3)

### primary record

voice

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 1139 (Torah 86, tales 1039, Sefer Yetzirah 14); EWT 9; ratio 6.8 (Torah alone 10.6); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And He said: 'What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto Me from the ground.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.99/)
- [and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast hearkened to My voice.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.594/)
- [because that Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.738/)
- [Now therefore, my son, hearken to my voice according to that which I command thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.781/)
- [Now therefore, my son, hearken to my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.821/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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