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# commandeth

«commandeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **commands** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

commands

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«commandeth» means «commands», a form of «command»: To tell someone officially to do something; to order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/commandeth/#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 commandeth» = «he commands».

### examples

- And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke unto Moses, saying: 'Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth. (Torah NUM.32.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/commandeth/#x1)
- This day the LORD thy God commandeth thee to do these statutes and ordinances; thou shalt therefore observe and do them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. (Torah DEU.26.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/commandeth/#x2)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «command», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten into splinters, and the little house into chips.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.105/)
- [Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.204/)
- [He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.949/)
- [Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.90/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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