liveth

«liveth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: lives — 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

lives

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«liveth» means «lives», a form of «live»: To live is to be alive. 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 liveth» = «he lives».

examples

• Every moving thing that liveth shall be for food for you; as the green herb have I given you all. (Torah GEN.9.3, JPS 1917) tree →
• Hereby ye shall be proved, as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. (Torah GEN.42.15, JPS 1917) tree →
• Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you; or else, as Pharaoh liveth, surely ye are spies.' (Torah GEN.42.16, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «live», a verb of EWT); corpora 4 (Torah 4, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.5 (Torah alone 9.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Every moving thing that liveth shall be for food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.
• Hereby ye shall be proved, as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
• For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom.
• As the LORD liveth, ye deserve to die, because ye have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD'S anointed.
• The LORD liveth, and blessed be my Rock; and exalted be the God, my Rock of salvation;

Trees and pragmatics

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