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# asketh

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

asks

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«asketh» means «asks», a form of «ask»: To ask is to say a question so that you get an answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/asketh/#m1)

### 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 asketh» = «he asks».

### examples

- When thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying: 'What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD our God hath commanded you? (Torah DEU.6.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/asketh/#x1)
- And he commanded the foremost, saying: 'When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying: Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee? (Torah GEN.32.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/asketh/#x2)
- And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying: What is this? that thou shalt say unto him: By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage; (Torah EXO.13.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/asketh/#x3)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «ask», a verb of EWT); corpora 4 (Torah 4, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.5 (Torah alone 9.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «asketh» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/asketh/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.