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Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Genesis 1:14
- Last Reference: Revelation 22:16
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1157 Used 1 time
- H1214 Used 1 time
- H1396 Used 1 time
- H1767 Used 1 time
- H1980 Used 2 times
- H3027 Used 1 time
- H3051 Used 4 times
- H3605 Used 1 time
- H3644 Used 1 time
- H413 Used 1181 times
- H4480 Used 4 times
- H4481 Used 2 times
- H4616 Used 17 times
- H4672 Used 1 time
- H4758 Used 1 time
- H4994 Used 1 time
- H5668 Used 5 times
- H5704 Used 171 times
- H5705 Used 5 times
- H5740 Used 1 time
- H5921 Used 204 times
- H5922 Used 7 times
- H5973 Used 10 times
- H5974 Used 2 times
- H5980 Used 1 time
- H6310 Used 15 times
- H6440 Used 3 times
- H681 Used 1 time
- H6903 Used 1 time
- H7210 Used 1 time
- H8104 Used 1 time
- H854 Used 24 times
- H935 Used 1 time
- G1161 Used 9 times
- G1223 Used 1 time
- G1377 Used 1 time
- G1451 Used 5 times
- G1511 Used 1 time
- G1519 Used 289 times
- G1537 Used 1 time
- G1700 Used 1 time
- G1722 Used 17 times
- G1777 Used 1 time
- G1799 Used 1 time
- G1909 Used 39 times
- G2075 Used 1 time
- G2193 Used 17 times
- G2243 Used 1 time
- G2248 Used 1 time
- G2443 Used 73 times
- G2531 Used 1 time
- G2532 Used 2 times
- G2596 Used 5 times
- G3123 Used 1 time
- G3195 Used 1 time
- G33 Used 2 times
- G3326 Used 1 time
- G3360 Used 1 time
- G3361 Used 1 time
- G3664 Used 1 time
- G3667 Used 1 time
- G3704 Used 4 times
- G3739 Used 2 times
- G3754 Used 1 time
- G3767 Used 1 time
- G4314 Used 177 times
- G4334 Used 2 times
- G4354 Used 1 time
- G472 Used 1 time
- G4832 Used 1 time
- G4960 Used 1 time
- G5228 Used 1 time
- G5293 Used 1 time
- G5620 Used 3 times
- G608 Used 1 time
- G846 Used 2 times
- G848 Used 1 time
- G891 Used 2 times
- G991 Used 1 time
TO, preposition
1. Noting motion towards a place; opposed to from, or placed after another word expressing motion towards. He is going to church.
2. Noting motion towards a state or condition. He is going to a trade; he is rising to wealth and honor.
3. Noting accord or adaptation; as an occupation suited to his taste; she has a husband to her mind.
4. Noting address or compellation, or the direction of a discourse. These remarks were addressed to a large audience.
TO you, my noble lord of Westmoreland;
I pledge your grace.
5. Noting attention or application.
Go, buckle to the law.
Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them. 1 Timothy 4:1.
6. Noting addition.
Add to your faith, virtue. 2 Peter 1:1.
Wisdom he has, and to his wisdom, courage.
7. Noting opposition. They engaged hand to hand.
8. Noting amount, rising to They met us, to the number of three hundred.
9. Noting proportion; as, three is to nine as nine is to twenty seven. It is ten to one that you will offend by your officiousness.
10. Noting possession or appropriation. We have a good seat; let us keep it to ourselves.
11. Noting perception; as a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to the mind.
12. Noting the subject of an affirmation.
I have a king's oath to the contrary.
13. In comparison of.
All that they did was piety to this.
14. As far as.
Few of the Esquimaux can count to ten.
15. Noting intention.
--Marks and points out each man of us to slaughter.
[In this sense, for is now used.]
16. After an adjective, noting the object; as deaf to the cries of distress; alive to the sufferings of the poor. He was attentive to the company or to the discourse.
17. Noting obligation; as duty to God and to our parents.
18. Noting enmity; as a dislike to spiritus liquors.
19. Towards; as, she stretched her arms to heaven.
20. Noting effect or end. The prince was flattered to his ruin. He engaged in a war to this cost. Violent factions exist to the prejudice of the state.
Numbers were crowded to death.
21. to as a sign of the infinitive, precedes the radical verb. Sometimes it is used instead of the ancient form, for to noting purpose. David in his life time intended to build a temple. The legislature assembles annually to make and amend laws. The court will sit in February to try some important causes.
22. It precedes the radical verb after adjectives, noting the object; as ready to go; prompt to obey; quick to hear, but slow to censure.
23. It precedes the radical verb, noting the object.
The delay of our hopes teaches us to mortify our desires.
24. It precedes the radical verb, noting consequence.
I have done my utmost to lead my life so pleasantly as to forget my misfortunes.
25. It notes extent, degree or end. He languishes to death, even to death. The water rises to the highth of twenty feet. The line extends from one end to the other.
26. After the substantive verb, and with the radical verb, it denotes futurity. The construction, we are to meet at ten o'clock, every man at death is to receive the reward of his deeds, is a particular form of expressing future time.
27. After have, it denotes duty or necessity.
I have a debt to pay on Saturday.
28. To-day, to-night, to-morrow, are peculiar phrases derived from our ancestors. to in the two first, has the sense or force of this; this day, this night. In the last, it is equivalent to in or on; in or on the morrow. The words may be considered as compounds, to-day, to-night, to-morrow, and usually as adverbs. But sometimes they are used as nouns; as, to-day is ours.
TO and from, backward and forward. In this phrase, to is adverbial.
TO the face, in presence of; not in the absence of.
I withstood him face to face. Galatians 2:1.
To-morrow, to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.
[Note.--In the foregoing explanation of to it is to be considered that the definition given is not always the sense of to by itself, but the sense rather of the word preceding it, or connected with it, or of to in connection with other words. In general, to is used in the sense of moving towards a place, or towards an object, or it expresses direction towards a place, end, object or purpose.]
TO is often used adverbially to modify the sense of verbs; as, to come to; to heave to The sense of such phrases is explained under the verbs respectively.
In popular phrases like the following, 'I will not come; you shall to or too, a genuine Saxon phrase, to denotes moreover, besides, Latin insuper.
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Genesis 1:14
- Last Reference: Revelation 22:16
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1157 Used 1 time
- H1214 Used 1 time
- H1396 Used 1 time
- H1767 Used 1 time
- H1980 Used 2 times
- H3027 Used 1 time
- H3051 Used 4 times
- H3605 Used 1 time
- H3644 Used 1 time
- H413 Used 1181 times
- H4480 Used 4 times
- H4481 Used 2 times
- H4616 Used 17 times
- H4672 Used 1 time
- H4758 Used 1 time
- H4994 Used 1 time
- H5668 Used 5 times
- H5704 Used 171 times
- H5705 Used 5 times
- H5740 Used 1 time
- H5921 Used 204 times
- H5922 Used 7 times
- H5973 Used 10 times
- H5974 Used 2 times
- H5980 Used 1 time
- H6310 Used 15 times
- H6440 Used 3 times
- H681 Used 1 time
- H6903 Used 1 time
- H7210 Used 1 time
- H8104 Used 1 time
- H854 Used 24 times
- H935 Used 1 time
- G1161 Used 9 times
- G1223 Used 1 time
- G1377 Used 1 time
- G1451 Used 5 times
- G1511 Used 1 time
- G1519 Used 289 times
- G1537 Used 1 time
- G1700 Used 1 time
- G1722 Used 17 times
- G1777 Used 1 time
- G1799 Used 1 time
- G1909 Used 39 times
- G2075 Used 1 time
- G2193 Used 17 times
- G2243 Used 1 time
- G2248 Used 1 time
- G2443 Used 73 times
- G2531 Used 1 time
- G2532 Used 2 times
- G2596 Used 5 times
- G3123 Used 1 time
- G3195 Used 1 time
- G33 Used 2 times
- G3326 Used 1 time
- G3360 Used 1 time
- G3361 Used 1 time
- G3664 Used 1 time
- G3667 Used 1 time
- G3704 Used 4 times
- G3739 Used 2 times
- G3754 Used 1 time
- G3767 Used 1 time
- G4314 Used 177 times
- G4334 Used 2 times
- G4354 Used 1 time
- G472 Used 1 time
- G4832 Used 1 time
- G4960 Used 1 time
- G5228 Used 1 time
- G5293 Used 1 time
- G5620 Used 3 times
- G608 Used 1 time
- G846 Used 2 times
- G848 Used 1 time
- G891 Used 2 times
- G991 Used 1 time