stirreth

«stirreth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: stirs — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

stirs

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«stirreth» means «stirs», a form of «stir»: To stir is to move a spoon or stick round and round in a liquid or mixture to mix 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 stirreth» = «he stirs».

examples

• As an eagle that stirreth up her nest, hovereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her pinions — (Torah DEU.32.11, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «stir», 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

• Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love covereth all transgressions.
• A soft answer turneth away wrath; but a grievous word stirreth up anger.
• A wrathful man stirreth up discord; but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
• He that is of a greedy spirit stirreth up strife; but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be abundantly gratified.
• An angry man stirreth up strife, and a wrathful man aboundeth in transgression.

Trees and pragmatics

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