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# eateth

«eateth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **eats** — 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

eats

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«eateth» means «eats», a form of «eat»: To eat is to put food in your mouth, chew it and swallow it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/eateth/#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 eateth» = «he eats».

### examples

- Whosoever it be that eateth any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people. (Torah LEV.7.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/eateth/#x1)
- And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes. (Torah LEV.14.47, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/eateth/#x2)
- But every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the holy thing of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from his people. (Torah LEV.19.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/E/eateth/#x3)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «eat», a verb of EWT); corpora 15 (Torah 15, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.7 (Torah alone 35.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Whosoever it be that eateth any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.162/)
- [And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.416/)
- [Thus they exchanged their glory for the likeness of an ox that eateth grass.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1926/)
- [The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his desire; but the belly of the wicked shall want.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.374/)
- [She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.924/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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