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# thither

«thither» in Mova's school dictionary: **"to that place" or "there": "He went thither on foot."** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (thither — old-fashioned)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (old-fashioned, formal) Thither means "to that place" or "there": "He went thither on foot." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thither/#m1)

2) "Hither and thither" means here and there, in many directions: "The leaves blew hither and thither." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thither/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

It appears in old books, the Bible (King James Version), poems and fairy tales; it tells the reader the language is old or grand. In modern speech it survives mainly in "hither and thither". Paired old words: hither (to here), thither (to there), whither (to where?), hence, thence, whence (from here, there, where).

### examples

- They journeyed thither by boat. (old style) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thither/#x1)
- The children ran hither and thither across the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thither/#x2)
- Ants scurried hither and thither. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thither/#x3)
- "Go thither and bring me water," said the king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thither/#x4)
- In the old story, the knight rode thither to save the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thither/#x5)
- The wind blew the paper hither and thither. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thither/#x6)
- Whither goest thou? Thither, to the sea. (old poem style) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thither/#x7)
- Thither he went without speaking a word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thither/#x8)

### note

Pronounced "THITH-er" with the soft "th" of "the". Do not use it in normal modern writing except in "hither and thither". It means "to there", not "at there".

### In the corpora

- [And Abraham said unto him: 'Beware thou that thou bring not my son back thither.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.626/)
- [Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1362/)
- [Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying: Thou also shalt not go in thither;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.36/)
- [So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men; and they fled before the men of Ai.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.131/)
- [So they did unto all the Israelites that came thither in Shiloh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.44/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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