breatheth

«breatheth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: breathes — 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

breathes

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«breatheth» means «breathes», a form of «breathe»: To breathe is to take air into your body and let it out again. 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 breatheth» = «he breathes».

examples

• Howbeit of the cities of these peoples, that the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth, (Torah DEU.20.16, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «breathe», 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

• A false witness that breatheth out lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
• He that breatheth forth truth uttereth righteousness; but a false witness deceit.
• A faithful witness will not lie; but a false witness breatheth forth lies.
• A true witness delivereth souls; but he that breatheth forth lies is all deceit.
• A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he that breatheth forth lies shall not escape.

Trees and pragmatics

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