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# thither

«thither» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **there, to that 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

there, to that place

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

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

### how it differs from today

Old-fashioned; today we say "there" or "to that place."

### examples

- And Abraham said unto him: 'Beware thou that thou bring not my son back thither. (Torah GEN.24.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thither/#x1)
- Thither he went without speaking a word. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thither/#x2)
- Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.' (Torah GEN.42.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thither/#x3)

### primary record

thither

### tests

manual 10.1; corpora 174 (Torah 24, tales 150, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 19.7 (Torah alone 56.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [And Abraham said unto him: 'Beware thou that thou bring not my son back thither.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.626/)
- [Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1362/)
- [Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying: Thou also shalt not go in thither;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.36/)
- [So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men; and they fled before the men of Ai.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.131/)
- [So they did unto all the Israelites that came thither in Shiloh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.44/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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