breaketh

«breaketh» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: breaks — 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

breaks

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«breaketh» means «breaks», a form of «break»: To break is to make something come apart into pieces, so it can no longer be used. 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 breaketh» = «he breaks».

examples

• And he said: 'Let me go, for the day breaketh.' And he said: 'I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.' (Torah GEN.32.26, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «break», 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

• Is not My word like as fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
• The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
• My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto Thine ordinances at all times.
• As when one cleaveth and breaketh up the earth, our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth.
• By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.

Trees and pragmatics

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