drinketh

«drinketh» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: drinks — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

drinks

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«drinketh» means «drinks», a form of «drink»: To drink is to take water, milk, juice or another liquid into your mouth and swallow it. 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 drinketh» = «he drinks».

examples

• Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.' (Torah GEN.44.5, JPS 1917) tree →
• but the land, whither ye go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water as the rain of heaven cometh down; (Torah DEU.11.11, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «drink», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.'
• He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off his own feet, and drinketh damage.
• How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water!
• What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

Trees and pragmatics

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