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# whereof

«whereof» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **of which** — 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

of which

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

Of what, or of which thing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whereof/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today we say "of which"; the word itself is old and no longer used in everyday speech.

### examples

- Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?' (Torah GEN.3.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whereof/#x1)
- A fine collation was served up, whereof the young Prince ate not a morsel, so intently was he busied in gazing on her. (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whereof/#x2)
- And from thence to Beer; that is the well whereof the LORD said unto Moses: 'Gather the people together, and I will give them water.' (Torah NUM.21.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whereof/#x3)

### tests

manual 10.1; corpora 12 (Torah 10, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.4 (Torah alone 23.3); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.72/)
- [and they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them: 'Ye shall not do this thing';](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.519/)
- [The earth quaketh at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1311/)
- [Behold, it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord GOD; This is the day whereof I have spoken.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1026/)
- [There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the holiest dwelling-place of the Most High.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.763/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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