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# groweth

«groweth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **grows** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

grows

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«groweth» means «grows», a form of «grow»: To grow is to get bigger or taller, like a child or a plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/groweth/#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 groweth» = «he grows».

### examples

- A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you; ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of the undressed vines. (Torah LEV.25.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/groweth/#x1)
- That which groweth of itself of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shalt not gather; it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. (Torah LEV.25.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/groweth/#x2)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «grow», a verb of EWT); corpora 4 (Torah 4, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.5 (Torah alone 9.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1623/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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