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# eventide

noun (old use)

«eventide» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition and Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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

### In the lessons

in fairy tales and old stories, eventide is the quiet time of evening when people rest

### Examples

- At eventide the family lay down to sleep. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eventide/#x1)
- The goatherd drove his flock home at eventide. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eventide/#x2)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In 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.

### 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://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/eventide/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

the evening, the time when the day is ending. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/eventide/#m1)

### Then and now

An old word, rarely used today; we say evening.

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/eventide/#x1)
- So at eventide they all lay down on the floor, and beside them they set a lighted taper hidden in an earthen pot. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/eventide/#x2)
- 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/eventide/#x3)

### Note

Today: evening.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «eventide» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eventide/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«eventide» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/eventide.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «eventide» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/eventide/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«eventide» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/eventide.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «eventide» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/eventide/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«eventide» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/eventide.html) on Mova free.