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# hither

«hither» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **here, to this place** — 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

here, to this place

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

To this place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hither/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today we say "here" or "to here"; "hither" is old-fashioned and now found mostly in set phrases like "hither and thither". The sentences use it in the sense "to here", which is no longer normal.

### examples

- And in the fourth generation they shall come back hither; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.' (Torah GEN.15.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hither/#x1)
- I know why you come hither. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hither/#x2)
- Hereby ye shall be proved, as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. (Torah GEN.42.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hither/#x3)

### primary record

hither

### tests

manual 10.1; corpora 173 (Torah 6, tales 167, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 19.6 (Torah alone 14.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [And in the fourth generation they shall come back hither; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.392/)
- [Hereby ye shall be proved, as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1376/)
- [And Joshua said unto the children of Israel: 'Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.51/)
- [And David knew that Saul devised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest: 'Bring hither the ephod.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.671/)
- [But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1232/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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