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# belongeth

«belongeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **belongs** — 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

belongs

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«belongeth» means «belongs», a form of «belong»: To belong to someone is to be owned by them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/belongeth/#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 belongeth» = «he belongs».

### examples

- Behold, unto the LORD thy God belongeth the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that therein is. (Torah DEU.10.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/belongeth/#x1)
- In the year of jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongeth. (Torah LEV.27.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/belongeth/#x2)
- And the LORD shall make a division between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that belongeth to the children of Israel.' (Torah EXO.9.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/belongeth/#x3)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «belong», 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

### In the corpora

- [So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them near to Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.563/)
- [Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day; wherefore Ziklag belongeth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.801/)
- [Salvation belongeth unto the LORD; Thy blessing be upon Thy people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.29/)
- [God hath spoken once, twice have I heard this: that strength belongeth unto God;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1016/)
- [Also unto Thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy; for Thou renderest to every man according to his work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1017/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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