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# breatheth

«breatheth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **breathes** — 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

breathes

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«breatheth» means «breathes», a form of «breathe»: To breathe is to take air into your body and let it out again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/breatheth/#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 breatheth» = «he breathes».

### examples

- Howbeit of the cities of these peoples, that the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth, (Torah DEU.20.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/breatheth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «breathe», 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

- [A false witness that breatheth out lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.160/)
- [He that breatheth forth truth uttereth righteousness; but a false witness deceit.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.338/)
- [A faithful witness will not lie; but a false witness breatheth forth lies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.379/)
- [A true witness delivereth souls; but he that breatheth forth lies is all deceit.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.400/)
- [A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he that breatheth forth lies shall not escape.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.533/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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