floweth

«floweth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: flows — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

flows

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«floweth» means «flows», a form of «flow»: Of a liquid, gas or electricity: to move along smoothly and steadily in one direction. 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 floweth» = «he flows».

examples

• If the LORD delight in us, then He will bring us into this land, and give it unto us — a land which floweth with milk and honey. (Torah NUM.14.8, JPS 1917) tree →
• And they told him, and said: 'We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. (Torah NUM.13.27, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «flow», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

Trees and pragmatics

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