walketh

«walketh» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: walks — 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

walks

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«walketh» means «walks», a form of «walk»: To walk means to move by putting one foot in front of the other, slower than running. 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 walketh» = «he walks».

examples

• And she said unto the servant: 'What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us?' And the servant said: 'It is my master.' And she took her veil, and covered herself. (Torah GEN.24.65, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «walk», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• He entereth into peace, they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness.
• Do not My words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
• He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh truth in his heart;
• They have set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
• Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor of the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

Trees and pragmatics

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