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# harken

verb

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

## In Jewish tradition

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.

### Meaning

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

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/harken/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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