howbeit

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

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

however

part of speech

conjunction

meaning for a pupil

Nevertheless; still; but. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer normal; today we say "however" or "but". The meaning is the same, but the word is old.

examples

• Howbeit the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, (Torah NUM.31.22, JPS 1917) tree →
• 'Howbeit the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel; (Torah NUM.1.49, JPS 1917) tree →
• Howbeit as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike. (Torah DEU.12.22, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

however

tests

manual 10.2; corpora 12 (Torah 12, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.4 (Torah alone 28.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• 'Howbeit the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel;
• Howbeit the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
• Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
• Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.
• Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.

Trees and pragmatics

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