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# breaketh

«breaketh» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **breaks** — 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

breaks

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«breaketh» means «breaks», a form of «break»: To break is to make something come apart into pieces, so it can no longer be used. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/breaketh/#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 breaketh» = «he breaks».

### examples

- And he said: 'Let me go, for the day breaketh.' And he said: 'I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.' (Torah GEN.32.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/breaketh/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «break», 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

- [Is not My word like as fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.649/)
- [The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.425/)
- [My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto Thine ordinances at all times.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2183/)
- [As when one cleaveth and breaketh up the earth, our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2573/)
- [By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.736/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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