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# burneth

«burneth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **burns** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

burns

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«burneth» means «burns», a form of «burn»: To be on fire, to make flames and heat: "The wood is burning." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/burneth/#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 burneth» = «he burns».

### examples

- And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. (Torah LEV.16.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/burneth/#x1)
- And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. (Torah NUM.19.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/burneth/#x2)
- For a fire is kindled in My nostril, and burneth unto the depths of the nether-world, and devoureth the earth with her produce, and setteth ablaze the foundations of the mountains. (Torah DEU.32.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/burneth/#x3)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «burn», 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

- [As the fire that burneth the forest, and as the flame that setteth the mountains ablaze;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1478/)
- [A fire goeth before Him, and burneth up His adversaries round about.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1727/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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