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# unto

«unto» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **to** — 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

to

### part of speech

preposition

### meaning for a pupil

To; towards a person or place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/U/unto/#m1)

### how it differs from today

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

### examples

- And God spoke unto Noah, saying: (Torah GEN.8.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/U/unto/#x1)
- There replied unto him a living man: (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/U/unto/#x2)
- For God^[18] is superlative in his Unity, there is none equal unto Him: what number canst thou place before One. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/U/unto/#x3)

### primary record

to

### tests

manual 11; corpora 2437 (Torah 2372, tales 56, Sefer Yetzirah 9); EWT 1; ratio 92.0 (Torah alone 1845.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.58/)
- [And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.62/)
- [And the serpent said unto the woman: 'Ye shall not surely die;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.64/)
- [And the LORD God called unto the man, and said unto him: 'Where art thou?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.69/)
- [And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.89/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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