looketh

«looketh» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: looks — 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

looks

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«looketh» means «looks», a form of «look»: To look is to turn your eyes to see something: look at the board. 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 looketh» = «he looks».

examples

• And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert. (Torah NUM.23.28, JPS 1917) tree →
• and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert. (Torah NUM.21.20, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «look», 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

• And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert.
• Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east;
• The LORD looketh from heaven; He beholdeth all the sons of men;
• From the place of His habitation He looketh intently upon all the inhabitants of the earth;
• Who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.

Trees and pragmatics

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