Definition

1. Adverb:
   • With that thing, action, or matter: Used to indicate accompaniment or association with something previously mentioned.
   • Immediately following that; thereupon: Used to indicate something happening immediately after or as a consequence of a prior action.

Usage

• Therewith is a formal, literary, or archaic adverb. It is rarely used in modern everyday conversation but appears in legal, religious, or historical texts. It directly connects a subsequent action or state to a previously mentioned object, circumstance, or idea.

Examples

• Adverb (with that):
  • He signed the contract and provided the payment therewith. (He provided the payment with the signed contract / along with it.)
  • She stated her opinion and rested her case therewith. (She rested her case with that statement / concluding with it.)
• Adverb (thereupon):
  • The judge pronounced the sentence, and therewith the court adjourned. (Immediately after the sentence, the court adjourned.)

Advanced Usage

• Legal/Formal Context: Often used in legal documents to mean "along with that" or "by means of that."
  • The tenant shall quit the premises and deliver the keys therewith.
• Biblical/Literary Context: Used to express contentment or action in relation to a given condition, as in the provided reference.
  • "...for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content."

Variants and Related Words

• Therewithal (adverb, archaic): With all that; besides; moreover. (Often interchangeable with in older texts but can imply an additional sense of "with all that" or "furthermore.")
  • He offered his apology and, therewithal, a promise to do better.

Synonyms

• Therewith: Thereupon, with that, thereby, wherewith (archaic).
• With it/that: Accompanying it, along with it.

Notes on Meaning

• The core meaning is instrumental or associative ("with that thing") rather than locative ("in that place," which is ).
• It often implies a close logical or temporal connection between two elements in a sentence.

Adverb

1. with that or this or it
   • I have learned that whatever state I am, therewith to be content- Phil.4:11