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# wherewith

«wherewith» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **with 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

with which

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

With what thing; with which. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wherewith/#m1)

### how it differs from today

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

### examples

- And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him. (Torah GEN.27.41, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wherewith/#x1)
- I have not even wherewith to buy oil, so as to light the lamp before the image[440] for the festival!" (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wherewith/#x2)
- And thou shalt take in thy hand this rod, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.' (Torah EXO.4.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wherewith/#x3)

### tests

manual 10.1; corpora 55 (Torah 49, tales 6, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 6.2 (Torah alone 114.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.818/)
- [And thou shalt take in thy hand this rod, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.97/)
- [And thou shalt put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, wherewith to bear the ark.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.714/)
- [And he set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, wherewith to wash;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1257/)
- [And thou shalt give the money wherewith they that remain over of them are redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.136/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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