thence

«thence» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: from there — 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

from there

part of speech

adverb

meaning for a pupil

From that place. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it is old and formal; we say "from there."

examples

• And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. (Torah GEN.26.23, JPS 1917) tree →
• Your father banished me thence also.” (Irish Fairy Tales) tree →
• Here, there; מִכַּאן thence, from thence. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →

primary record

thence

tests

manual 10.1; corpora 95 (Torah 36, tales 52, Sefer Yetzirah 7); EWT 0; ratio 10.8 (Torah alone 84.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.
• So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.
• And the men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
• And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
• And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

Trees and pragmatics

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