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# neither

«neither» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **not either; nor** — 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

not either; nor

### part of speech

determiner, pronoun, conjunction, and adverb (also not)

### meaning for a pupil

Used to say "not one nor the other"; also used to start a sentence with "not" and "nor" in the old way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/neither/#m1)

### how it differs from today

In the Torah "neither shalt thou" means "you shall not either", which is an old use of "neither" to begin a clause; today we would say "nor" or "you must not".

### examples

- Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour. (Torah DEU.5.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/neither/#x1)
- I can neither fly nor swim.” (Peter Pan) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/neither/#x2)
- neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause. (Torah EXO.23.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/neither/#x3)

### primary record

neither

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 690 (Torah 139, tales 551, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 6; ratio 6.0 (Torah alone 25.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.200/)
- [Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto Mine altar, that thy nakedness be not uncovered thereon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.579/)
- [And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.636/)
- [neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.650/)
- [And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1038/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «neither» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/neither/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.