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# floweth

«floweth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **flows** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

flows

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«floweth» means «flows», a form of «flow»: Of a liquid, gas or electricity: to move along smoothly and steadily in one direction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/floweth/#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 floweth» = «he flows».

### examples

- If the LORD delight in us, then He will bring us into this land, and give it unto us — a land which floweth with milk and honey. (Torah NUM.14.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/floweth/#x1)
- And they told him, and said: 'We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. (Torah NUM.13.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/floweth/#x2)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «flow», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

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