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# eventide

«eventide» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **an old word for evening, the time when the day is ending** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (old use)

### meaning for a pupil

Eventide is an old word for evening, the time when the day is ending. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/eventide/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It is the evening time, as when Isaac went out to meditate and when the dove came back to Noah. Interpretation: The rabbis took Isaac's meditating in the field as the origin of the afternoon prayer, Minchah. In the primary lessons: in fairy tales and old stories, eventide is the quiet time of evening when people rest

### examples

- And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide; and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming. (Torah GEN.24.63, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/eventide/#x1)
- And the dove came in to him at eventide; and lo in her mouth an olive-leaf freshly plucked; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. (Torah GEN.8.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/eventide/#x2)
- At eventide behold terror; and before the morning they are not. (Prophets ISA.17.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/eventide/#x3)
- At eventide the family lay down to sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/eventide/#x4)
- The goatherd drove his flock home at eventide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/eventide/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [At eventide behold terror; and before the morning they are not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.373/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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