becometh

«becometh» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: becomes — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

becomes

part of speech

verb, old form of «becomes» (he, she, it)

meaning for a pupil

«becometh» means «becomes», a form of «become»: To become is to start to be something. A seed becomes a plant. tree →

how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -eth was the ending for he, she and it, where today we say -s: «he becometh» = «he becomes».

examples

• and she departeth out of his house, and goeth and becometh another man's wife, (Torah DEU.24.2, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «become», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• and she departeth out of his house, and goeth and becometh another man's wife,
• Thy testimonies are very sure, holiness becometh Thy house, O LORD, for evermore.
• He that correcteth a scorner getteth to himself shame, and he that reproveth a wicked man, it becometh unto him a blot.
• He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
• Overbearing speech becometh not a churl; much less do lying lips a prince.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «becometh» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.