biteth

«biteth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: bites — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

bites

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«biteth» means «bites», a form of «bite»: To cut or hold something with your teeth: "Bite the apple." 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 biteth» = «he bites».

examples

• Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a horned snake in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider falleth backward. (Torah GEN.49.17, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «bite», 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

• He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise froward things; he that biteth his lips bringeth evil to pass.
• At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like a basilisk.

Trees and pragmatics

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