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# fleeth

«fleeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **flees** — 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

flees

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«fleeth» means «flees», a form of «flee»: To flee is to run away from danger or from a place, quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fleeth/#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 fleeth» = «he flees».

### examples

- But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, whither he fleeth; (Torah NUM.35.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fleeth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «flee», 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

- [But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, whither he fleeth;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1302/)
- [He cometh forth like a flower, and withereth; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.342/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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