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# blesseth

«blesseth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **blesses** — 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

blesses

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«blesseth» means «blesses», a form of «bless»: To bless means to ask God to protect someone or something or bring them good, often by a priest or religious leader. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/blesseth/#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 blesseth» = «he blesses».

### examples

- Cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be every one that blesseth thee. (Torah GEN.27.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/blesseth/#x1)
- Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, and cursed be every one that curseth thee. (Torah NUM.24.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/blesseth/#x2)
- And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God after the measure of the freewill-offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give, according as the LORD thy God blesseth thee. (Torah DEU.16.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/blesseth/#x3)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «bless», a verb of EWT); corpora 3 (Torah 3, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 7.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be every one that blesseth thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.806/)
- [Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, and cursed be every one that curseth thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.876/)
- [He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly, and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1992/)
- [The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked; but He blesseth the habitation of the righteous.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.88/)
- [He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.791/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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