fighteth

«fighteth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: fights — 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

fights

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«fighteth» means «fights», a form of «fight»: To fight is to try to hurt someone using your body or weapons. 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 fighteth» = «he fights».

examples

• Ye shall not fear them; for the LORD your God, He it is that fighteth for you.' (Torah DEU.3.22, JPS 1917) tree →
• And He took off their chariot wheels, and made them to drive heavily; so that the Egyptians said: 'Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.' (Torah EXO.14.25, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «fight», 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

• Ye shall not fear them; for the LORD your God, He it is that fighteth for you.'
• Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when He fighteth in the day of battle.

Trees and pragmatics

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