gathereth

«gathereth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: gathers — 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

gathers

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«gathereth» means «gathers», a form of «gather»: To gather is to come together in one place as a group. 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 gathereth» = «he gathers».

tests

ending -eth (stem «gather», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• For the bed is too short for a man to stretch himself; and the covering too narrow when he gathereth himself up.
• And your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathereth; as locusts leap do they leap upon it.
• He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap; He layeth up the deeps in storehouses.
• The LORD doth build up Jerusalem, He gathereth together the dispersed of Israel;
• A wise son gathereth in summer; but a son that doeth shamefully sleepeth in harvest.

Trees and pragmatics

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