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# scribe

«scribe» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person whose job was to write or copy documents by…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a scribe, scribes); verb (scribe — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (history) A person whose job was to write or copy documents by hand, before printing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scribe/#m1)

2) (Bible) In the New Testament, the scribes were experts in Jewish law. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scribe/#m2)

3) (school) An adult who writes down a pupil's answers in a test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scribe/#m3)

4) (informal, humorous) A writer or journalist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scribe/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, Egyptian scribes wrote hieroglyphs; monks were scribes copying Bibles. In the Bible, Jesus spoke with the scribes and Pharisees. In school, a scribe helps a child who cannot write easily. Phrases: «act as a scribe», «the scribes and Pharisees».

### examples

- Ancient Egyptian scribes wrote on papyrus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scribe/#x1)
- The monk worked as a scribe copying the Bible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scribe/#x2)
- In the Bible, Jesus argued with the scribes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scribe/#x3)
- A scribe helped Sam write his test answers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scribe/#x4)
- You can be the scribe for your group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scribe/#x5)
- The king's scribe wrote down every word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scribe/#x6)
- By his orders this story and the others I had told him were written by his scribes in letters of gold, and laid up among his treasures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scribe/#x7)

### note

Countable. Related: «scribble», «script». In group work the «scribe» is the person who writes notes.

### In the corpora

- [Scribes pressed a cut reed into wet clay, making wedge-shaped marks called cuneiform.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/3-mesopotamia-first-cities-and-writing/6/)
- [Scribes pressed a cut reed into wet clay, making wedge-shaped marks; the word cuneiform means wedge-shaped.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/3-mesopotamia-first-cities-and-writing/13/)
- [and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Seraiah was scribe;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.227/)
- [and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.632/)
- [Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.139/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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