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# goeth

«goeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **goes** — 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

goes

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«goeth» means «goes», a form of «go»: To go is to move from one place to another: go to school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/goeth/#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 goeth» = «he goes».

### examples

- and she departeth out of his house, and goeth and becometh another man's wife, (Torah DEU.24.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/goeth/#x1)
- PRIDE GOETH BEFORE A FALL 132 (Indian Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/goeth/#x2)
- And it was told Tamar, saying: 'Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep.' (Torah GEN.38.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/goeth/#x3)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «go», a verb of EWT); corpora 27 (Torah 24, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 3.1 (Torah alone 56.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And the name of the third river is Tigris; that is it which goeth toward the east of Asshur.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.47/)
- [If thou at all take thy neighbour's garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him by that the sun goeth down;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.641/)
- [Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.415/)
- [And whoso toucheth any one that is unclean by the dead; or from whomsoever the flow of seed goeth out;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.635/)
- [This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.218/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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