forth

«forth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: out, forward — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

out, forward

part of speech

adverb

meaning for a pupil

forward or out, away from a starting place. tree →

how it differs from today

Today forth is rare, found mostly in phrases like 'and so forth'; here it means out, away, or on, as in 'go forth'.

examples

• This day ye go forth in the month Abib. (Torah EXO.13.4, JPS 1917) tree →
• The prince called forth Ivan Golik. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →
• The ineffable Sephiroth give forth the Ten numbers. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →

primary record

forth

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 841 (Torah 184, tales 643, Sefer Yetzirah 14); EWT 6; ratio 7.3 (Torah alone 33.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
• Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
• And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.
• And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
• And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; and she returned not again unto him any more.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «forth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.