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# ere

«ere» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **before** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

before

### part of speech

conjunction

### meaning for a pupil

before; earlier than a certain time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/ere/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say before.

### examples

- And the midwives said unto Pharaoh: 'Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwife come unto them.' (Torah EXO.1.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/ere/#x1)
- Ere long the dwarfs came trooping out till all were assembled. (The Green Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/ere/#x2)
- While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague. (Torah NUM.11.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/ere/#x3)

### primary record

before

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 40 (Torah 2, tales 38, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 4.5 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1232/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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