whence

«whence» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: from where — 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 where

part of speech

adverb

meaning for a pupil

From what place or source. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it is old-fashioned and formal; we usually say "where from" or "from where".

examples

• and Pathrusim, and Casluhim — whence went forth the Philistines — and Caphtorim. (Torah GEN.10.14, JPS 1917) tree →
• Whence do you come?" she asked. (Indian Fairy Tales) tree →
• In usual Hebrew grammatical terminology, the term ‘mothers’ is reserved for the אִמּוֹת קְרִיאָה immot qeriʼah, ‘mothers of reading’ (whence Latin matres lectionis), the letters אהו״י Alef-Heh-Waw-Yod which can serve to represent either consonants or vowels. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →

primary record

whence

tests

manual 10.1; corpora 180 (Torah 10, tales 167, Sefer Yetzirah 3); EWT 0; ratio 20.4 (Torah alone 23.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
• and Pathrusim, and Casluhim — whence went forth the Philistines — and Caphtorim.
• I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: from whence shall my help come?
• Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
• For the years that are few are coming on, and I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Trees and pragmatics

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