さらば

Also written 然らば

Meanings

1. Interjection farewell; goodbye; adieu
2. Conjunction if so; in that case; then; and (then)

Example sentences

• 探せ、さらば見いだすであろう。
  Seek, and you will find.
• 求めよ、さらば与へられん。尋ねよ、さらば見出さん。門を叩け、さらば開かれん。すべて求むる者は得、たづぬる者は見いだし、門をたたく者は開かるるなり。
  Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

Words containing さらば

• 求めよさらば与えられん (もとめよさらばあたえられん) ask, and it shall be given you
• 叩けよさらば開かれん (たたけよさらばひらかれん) knock, and it shall be opened unto you
• 武器よさらば (ぶきよさらば) A Farewell to Arms (novel by Ernest Hemingway, 1929)

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