[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/harken.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / harken

[← H](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/H/)

# harken

«harken» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To listen carefully, an old spelling of "hearken." It can…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To listen carefully, an old spelling of "hearken." It can also mean to go back to something earlier. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/harken/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Here it means a later verse echoing an earlier one. The text links a verse in Job to the "tohu" (formlessness) of Genesis 1:2.

### examples

- This enigmatic expression appears only once in the Tanakh, in [Job 26:7], where in a harkening back to [Genesis 1:2] it serves as a parallelism of primarial tohu. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/harken/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

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