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# becometh

«becometh» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **becomes** — 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

becomes

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«becometh» means «becomes», a form of «become»: To become is to start to be something. A seed becomes a plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/becometh/#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 becometh» = «he becomes».

### examples

- and she departeth out of his house, and goeth and becometh another man's wife, (Torah DEU.24.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/becometh/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «become», 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

- [and she departeth out of his house, and goeth and becometh another man's wife,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.641/)
- [Thy testimonies are very sure, holiness becometh Thy house, O LORD, for evermore.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1674/)
- [He that correcteth a scorner getteth to himself shame, and he that reproveth a wicked man, it becometh unto him a blot.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.246/)
- [He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.262/)
- [Overbearing speech becometh not a churl; much less do lying lips a prince.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.483/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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