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# threescore

«threescore» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **sixty** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

sixty

### part of speech

determiner or number

### meaning for a pupil

Three times twenty, which is sixty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/threescore/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say sixty.

### examples

- and threescore and twelve thousand beeves, (Torah NUM.31.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/threescore/#x1)
- ‘I must have threescore cattle killed,’ said she, ‘and cut up into quarters, and every time I look over my shoulder he must throw one of them into my mouth.’ (The Yellow Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/threescore/#x2)
- and threescore and one thousand asses, (Torah NUM.31.34, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/threescore/#x3)

### primary record

sixty

### tests

manual 11.5; corpora 25 (Torah 24, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.8 (Torah alone 56.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [The length by cubits after the ancient measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.39/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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