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# forth

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

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

out, forward

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

forward or out, away from a starting place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/forth/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today forth is rare, found mostly in phrases like 'and so forth'; here it means out, away, or on, as in 'go forth'.

### examples

- This day ye go forth in the month Abib. (Torah EXO.13.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/forth/#x1)
- The prince called forth Ivan Golik. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/forth/#x2)
- The ineffable Sephiroth give forth the Ten numbers. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/forth/#x3)

### primary record

forth

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 841 (Torah 184, tales 643, Sefer Yetzirah 14); EWT 6; ratio 7.3 (Torah alone 33.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.79/)
- [Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.84/)
- [And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.203/)
- [And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.205/)
- [And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; and she returned not again unto him any more.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.207/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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