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# thence

«thence» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **from there** — 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

from there

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

From that place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thence/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today it is old and formal; we say "from there."

### examples

- And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. (Torah GEN.26.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thence/#x1)
- Your father banished me thence also.” (Irish Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thence/#x2)
- Here, there; מִכַּאן thence, from thence. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thence/#x3)

### primary record

thence

### tests

manual 10.1; corpora 95 (Torah 36, tales 52, Sefer Yetzirah 7); EWT 0; ratio 10.8 (Torah alone 84.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.43/)
- [So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.286/)
- [And the men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.464/)
- [And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.521/)
- [And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.750/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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