needeth

«needeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: needs — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

needs

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«needeth» means «needs», a form of «need»: To need something is to have to have it, because you cannot do well without it. 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 needeth» = «he needs».

examples

• And Esau said: 'Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me.' And he said: 'What needeth it? let me find favour in the sight of my lord.' (Torah GEN.33.15, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «need», 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

Trees and pragmatics

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