repenteth

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

repents

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«repenteth» means «repents», a form of «repent»: To repent is to feel truly sorry for something wrong you have done and to want to change. 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 repenteth» = «he repents».

examples

• And the LORD said: 'I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and creeping thing, and fowl of the air; for it repenteth Me that I have made them.' (Torah GEN.6.7, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «repent», 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 «repenteth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.