fourscore

«fourscore» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: eighty — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

eighty

part of speech

determiner

meaning for a pupil

four times twenty; eighty. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say eighty.

examples

• And the days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years. (Torah GEN.35.28, JPS 1917) tree →
• And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram. (Torah GEN.16.16, JPS 1917) tree →
• even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore. (Torah NUM.4.48, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

eighty

tests

manual 11.5; corpora 6 (Torah 6, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.7 (Torah alone 14.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; and with him fourscore males.
• of the sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore;

Trees and pragmatics

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