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# drinketh

«drinketh» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **drinks** — 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

drinks

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«drinketh» means «drinks», a form of «drink»: To drink is to take water, milk, juice or another liquid into your mouth and swallow it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/drinketh/#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 drinketh» = «he drinks».

### examples

- Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.' (Torah GEN.44.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/drinketh/#x1)
- but the land, whither ye go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water as the rain of heaven cometh down; (Torah DEU.11.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/drinketh/#x2)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «drink», 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

- [Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1442/)
- [He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off his own feet, and drinketh damage.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.755/)
- [How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.384/)
- [What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.884/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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