cometh

«cometh» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: comes — 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

comes

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«cometh» means «comes», a form of «come»: To come is to move towards here, to the person speaking: Come here! 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 cometh» = «he comes».

examples

• And they said one to another: 'Behold, this dreamer cometh. (Torah GEN.37.19, JPS 1917) tree →
• At the set time I will return unto thee, when the season cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son.' (Torah GEN.18.14, JPS 1917) tree →
• And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee; and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart. (Torah EXO.4.14, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «come», a verb of EWT); corpora 25 (Torah 25, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.8 (Torah alone 58.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• At the set time I will return unto thee, when the season cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son.'
• And they said one to another: 'Behold, this dreamer cometh.
• As saith the proverb of the ancients: Out of the wicked cometh forth wickedness; but my hand shall not be upon thee.
• As whirlwinds in the South sweeping on, it cometh from the wilderness, from a dreadful land.
• When the report cometh to Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

Trees and pragmatics

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