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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Wherefore

Where′fore (hwâr′fōr), adv. & conj. [Where + for.]

1. For which reason; so; — used relatively.

Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Matt. vii. 20.

2. For what reason; why; — used interrogatively.

But wherefore that I tell my tale. Chaucer.

Wherefore didst thou doubt? Matt. xiv. 31.

Where′fore, n. the reason why. [Colloq.]

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.