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# betwixt

«betwixt» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **between** — 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

between

### part of speech

preposition

### meaning for a pupil

In the middle of two things or people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/betwixt/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say between.

### examples

- And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob. (Torah GEN.30.36, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/betwixt/#x1)
- It means betwixt and between, and that is just where I am. (The Jungle Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/betwixt/#x2)
- Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us two. (Torah GEN.31.37, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/betwixt/#x3)

### primary record

betwixt

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 18 (Torah 10, tales 8, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.0 (Torah alone 23.3); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.925/)
- [Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us two.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.978/)
- [And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.92/)
- [Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.87/)
- [There is no arbiter betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.232/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «betwixt» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/betwixt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.