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# whither

«whither» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **where 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

where to

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

To what place; to which place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whither/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today we say "where to" or "to where"; the word is old and no longer used in everyday speech.

### examples

- Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad. (Torah DEU.23.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whither/#x1)
- We know whither they are taken! (Andersen's Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whither/#x2)
- And he returned unto his brethren, and said: 'The child is not; and as for me, whither shall I go?' (Torah GEN.37.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/whither/#x3)

### tests

manual 10.1; corpora 162 (Torah 38, tales 124, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 18.4 (Torah alone 88.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye come into the land whither I bring you,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.586/)
- [But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, whither he fleeth;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1302/)
- [Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.626/)
- [but in the place whither they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.592/)
- [And they went every one straight forward; whither the spirit was to go, they went; they turned not when they went.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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