stealeth

«stealeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: steals — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

steals

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«stealeth» means «steals», a form of «steal»: To take something that belongs to someone else without permission and without meaning to give it back. 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 stealeth» = «he steals».

examples

• And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. (Torah EXO.21.16, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «steal», 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

• That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm stealeth away?
• Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Trees and pragmatics

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