goeth

«goeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: goes — 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

goes

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«goeth» means «goes», a form of «go»: To go is to move from one place to another: go to school. 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 goeth» = «he goes».

examples

• and she departeth out of his house, and goeth and becometh another man's wife, (Torah DEU.24.2, JPS 1917) tree →
• PRIDE GOETH BEFORE A FALL 132 (Indian Fairy Tales) tree →
• And it was told Tamar, saying: 'Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep.' (Torah GEN.38.13, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «go», a verb of EWT); corpora 27 (Torah 24, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 3.1 (Torah alone 56.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And the name of the third river is Tigris; that is it which goeth toward the east of Asshur.
• If thou at all take thy neighbour's garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him by that the sun goeth down;
• Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
• And whoso toucheth any one that is unclean by the dead; or from whomsoever the flow of seed goeth out;
• This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled;

Trees and pragmatics

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