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# howbeit

«howbeit» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **however** — 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

however

### part of speech

conjunction

### meaning for a pupil

Nevertheless; still; but. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/howbeit/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer normal; today we say "however" or "but". The meaning is the same, but the word is old.

### examples

- Howbeit the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, (Torah NUM.31.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/howbeit/#x1)
- 'Howbeit the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel; (Torah NUM.1.49, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/howbeit/#x2)
- Howbeit as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike. (Torah DEU.12.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/howbeit/#x3)

### primary record

however

### tests

manual 10.2; corpora 12 (Torah 12, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.4 (Torah alone 28.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- ['Howbeit the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.48/)
- [Howbeit the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1116/)
- [Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.366/)
- [Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.492/)
- [Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.354/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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