washeth

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

washes

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«washeth» means «washes», a form of «wash»: To clean something or someone with water and usually soap. 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 washeth» = «he washes».

examples

• Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washeth his garments in wine, and his vesture in the blood of grapes; (Torah GEN.49.11, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «wash», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

Trees and pragmatics

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