fleeth

«fleeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: flees — 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

flees

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«fleeth» means «flees», a form of «flee»: To flee is to run away from danger or from a place, quickly. 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 fleeth» = «he flees».

examples

• But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, whither he fleeth; (Torah NUM.35.26, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «flee», 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

• But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, whither he fleeth;
• He cometh forth like a flower, and withereth; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Trees and pragmatics

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