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# wrought

«wrought» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **made; worked; caused** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

made; worked; caused

### part of speech

verb, past tense of work (old form)

### meaning for a pupil

Made, shaped, or caused something to happen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wrought/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today we say "worked" or "made"; "wrought" survives only in set phrases such as "wrought iron".

### examples

- And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels. (Torah NUM.31.51, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wrought/#x1)
- Our man paused when he beheld what he had wrought. (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wrought/#x2)
- and in all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror, which Moses wrought in the sight of all Israel. (Torah DEU.34.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wrought/#x3)

### primary record

wrought

### tests

manual 6; corpora 49 (Torah 19, tales 30, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 5.6 (Torah alone 44.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they wrought.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1086/)
- [And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1145/)
- [and in all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror, which Moses wrought in the sight of all Israel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.980/)
- [And the people said unto Saul: 'Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.373/)
- [And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.243/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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