meeteth

«meeteth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: meets — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

meets

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«meeteth» means «meets», a form of «meet»: To meet is to come together with someone at the same place. 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 meeteth» = «he meets».

examples

• The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death. (Torah NUM.35.19, JPS 1917) tree →
• And he commanded the foremost, saying: 'When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying: Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee? (Torah GEN.32.17, JPS 1917) tree →
• or in enmity smote him with his hand, that he died; he that smote him shall surely be put to death: he is a murderer; the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meeteth him. (Torah NUM.35.21, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «meet», a verb of EWT); corpora 3 (Torah 3, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 7.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.

Trees and pragmatics

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