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# fourscore

«fourscore» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **eighty** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

eighty

### part of speech

determiner

### meaning for a pupil

four times twenty; eighty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fourscore/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say eighty.

### examples

- And the days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years. (Torah GEN.35.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fourscore/#x1)
- And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram. (Torah GEN.16.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fourscore/#x2)
- even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore. (Torah NUM.4.48, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fourscore/#x3)

### primary record

eighty

### tests

manual 11.5; corpora 6 (Torah 6, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.7 (Torah alone 14.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; and with him fourscore males.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.197/)
- [of the sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.601/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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