showeth

«showeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: shows — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

shows

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«showeth» means «shows», a form of «show»: To show is to let someone see something. 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 showeth» = «he shows».

examples

• And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go; peradventure the LORD will come to meet me; and whatsoever He showeth me I will tell thee.' And he went to a bare height. (Torah NUM.23.3, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «show», 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

In the corpora

• Great salvation giveth He to His king; and showeth mercy to His anointed, to David and to his seed, for evermore.
• The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork;
• When the hay is mown, and the tender grass showeth itself, and the herbs of the mountains are gathered in;

Trees and pragmatics

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