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# fighteth

«fighteth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **fights** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

fights

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«fighteth» means «fights», a form of «fight»: To fight is to try to hurt someone using your body or weapons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fighteth/#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 fighteth» = «he fights».

### examples

- Ye shall not fear them; for the LORD your God, He it is that fighteth for you.' (Torah DEU.3.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fighteth/#x1)
- And He took off their chariot wheels, and made them to drive heavily; so that the Egyptians said: 'Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.' (Torah EXO.14.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fighteth/#x2)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «fight», 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

- [Ye shall not fear them; for the LORD your God, He it is that fighteth for you.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.105/)
- [Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when He fighteth in the day of battle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.200/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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