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# thine

«thine» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **yours** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

yours

### part of speech

determiner or pronoun, possessive form, one person

### meaning for a pupil

Belonging to you; used before a vowel sound or on its own, as in "shall be thine." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thine/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say yours or your.

### examples

- Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine. (Torah NUM.18.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thine/#x1)
- "And she shall be thine," he exclaimed; "thine! (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thine/#x2)
- then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity. (Torah DEU.25.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thine/#x3)

### tests

manual 3; corpora 187 (Torah 118, tales 69, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 21.2 (Torah alone 275.4); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And Esau said: 'I have enough; my brother, let that which thou hast be thine.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1042/)
- [If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.651/)
- [Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy fathers brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.525/)
- [Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.686/)
- [And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be thine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.690/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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