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# whence

«whence» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **from where** — 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

from where

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

From what place or source. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whence/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today it is old-fashioned and formal; we usually say "where from" or "from where".

### examples

- and Pathrusim, and Casluhim — whence went forth the Philistines — and Caphtorim. (Torah GEN.10.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whence/#x1)
- Whence do you come?" she asked. (Indian Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whence/#x2)
- In usual Hebrew grammatical terminology, the term ‘mothers’ is reserved for the אִמּוֹת קְרִיאָה immot qeriʼah, ‘mothers of reading’ (whence Latin matres lectionis), the letters אהו״י Alef-Heh-Waw-Yod which can serve to represent either consonants or vowels. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whence/#x3)

### primary record

whence

### tests

manual 10.1; corpora 180 (Torah 10, tales 167, Sefer Yetzirah 3); EWT 0; ratio 20.4 (Torah alone 23.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.84/)
- [and Pathrusim, and Casluhim — whence went forth the Philistines — and Caphtorim.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.260/)
- [I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: from whence shall my help come?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2351/)
- [Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.257/)
- [For the years that are few are coming on, and I shall go the way whence I shall not return.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.426/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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