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# hark

verb (harks, harked, harking); interjection

«hark» 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

1. (old use) «Hark!» is a call to listen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hark/#m1)
2. To hark to something means to listen carefully to it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hark/#m2)

### In the lessons

in tales, a call to listen to a sound such as wind or a buzzing

### Examples

- Hark! Is that a bell? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hark/#x1)
- Hark to the wind rising over the sea! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hark/#x2)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

It makes the reader stop and hear a sound or warning.

**Interpretation.** The prophets use it to call Israel and the nations to listen to God's warnings.

### Examples

- Hark! a cry from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction! (Prophets JER.48.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hark/#x1)
- Hark! battle is in the land, and great destruction. (Prophets JER.50.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hark/#x2)
- Hark, the uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! (Prophets ISA.13.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hark/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

listen, pay attention. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hark/#m1)

### Then and now

An old word, now used mostly in 'Hark!' or in poetry; we say listen.

### Examples

- Hark! is not that the wind rising? (The Violet Fairy Book) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hark/#x1)
- Hark, what a buzzing and humming there is!" (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hark/#x2)
- Hark to the raging of the angry wind, sounding above the rolling sea! (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hark/#x3)

### Note

Today: listen.

## On Mova

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