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# thy

«thy» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **your** — 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

your

### part of speech

determiner, possessive form, one person

### meaning for a pupil

Belonging to you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thy/#m1)

### how it differs from today

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

### examples

- I wait for Thy salvation, O Lord. (Torah GEN.49.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thy/#x1)
- "In thy wife's head," says she. (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thy/#x2)
- And they shall hearken to thy voice. (Torah EXO.3.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thy/#x3)

### tests

manual 3; corpora 2091 (Torah 1334, tales 741, Sefer Yetzirah 16); EWT 3; ratio 33.8 (Torah alone 444.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And the LORD said unto Cain: 'Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.94/)
- [And He said: 'What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto Me from the ground.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.99/)
- [And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.100/)
- ['Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.211/)
- [for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.349/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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