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# cometh

«cometh» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **comes** — 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

comes

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«cometh» means «comes», a form of «come»: To come is to move towards here, to the person speaking: Come here! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/cometh/#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 cometh» = «he comes».

### examples

- And they said one to another: 'Behold, this dreamer cometh. (Torah GEN.37.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/cometh/#x1)
- At the set time I will return unto thee, when the season cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son.' (Torah GEN.18.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/cometh/#x2)
- And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee; and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart. (Torah EXO.4.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/cometh/#x3)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «come», a verb of EWT); corpora 25 (Torah 25, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.8 (Torah alone 58.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [At the set time I will return unto thee, when the season cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.455/)
- [And they said one to another: 'Behold, this dreamer cometh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1197/)
- [As saith the proverb of the ancients: Out of the wicked cometh forth wickedness; but my hand shall not be upon thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.710/)
- [As whirlwinds in the South sweeping on, it cometh from the wilderness, from a dreadful land.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.417/)
- [When the report cometh to Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.473/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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