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# cheweth

«cheweth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **chews** — 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

chews

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«cheweth» means «chews», a form of «chew»: To chew is to break up food in your mouth with your teeth before you swallow it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/cheweth/#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 cheweth» = «he chews».

### examples

- And the rock-badger, because he cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you. (Torah LEV.11.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/cheweth/#x1)
- And the hare, because she cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, she is unclean unto you. (Torah LEV.11.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/cheweth/#x2)
- Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is wholly cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat. (Torah LEV.11.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/cheweth/#x3)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «chew», a verb of EWT); corpora 8 (Torah 8, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.9 (Torah alone 18.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And the rock-badger, because he cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.259/)
- [And the hare, because she cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, she is unclean unto you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.260/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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