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# whereby

«whereby» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **by which; how** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

by which; how

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

By what means or by which thing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whereby/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today we would say "how" or "by what means"; the word is old and no longer used in everyday speech.

### examples

- And he said: 'O Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?' (Torah GEN.15.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whereby/#x1)
- And now I have something to give you whereby to remember me when I am gone.” (Japanese Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whereby/#x2)
- Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.' (Torah GEN.44.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whereby/#x3)

### tests

manual 10.1; corpora 20 (Torah 9, tales 11, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.3 (Torah alone 21.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And he said: 'O Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.384/)
- [Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1442/)
- [Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and ordinances whereby they should not live;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.479/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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