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# faileth

«faileth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **fails** — 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

fails

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«faileth» means «fails», a form of «fail»: To fail means not to do what you tried or wanted to do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/faileth/#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 faileth» = «he fails».

### tests

ending -eth (stem «fail», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [The earth fainteth and fadeth away, the world faileth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do fail.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.490/)
- [The new wine faileth, the vine fadeth; all the merry-hearted do sigh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.493/)
- [My heart fluttereth, my strength faileth me; as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.624/)
- [Cast me not off in the time of old age; when my strength faileth, forsake me not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1180/)
- [My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1247/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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