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# holdeth

«holdeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **holds** — 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

holds

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«holdeth» means «holds», a form of «hold»: To hold is to have something in your hand or arms: hold my hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/holdeth/#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 holdeth» = «he holds».

### examples

- and her father heareth her vow, or her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father holdeth his peace at her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand. (Torah NUM.30.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/holdeth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «hold», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [My soul cleaveth unto Thee; Thy right hand holdeth me fast.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1026/)
- [If I say: 'My foot slippeth', Thy mercy, O LORD, holdeth me up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1694/)
- [He that despiseth his neighbour lacketh understanding; but a man of discernment holdeth his peace.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.302/)
- [Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward; he that keepeth his soul holdeth himself far from them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.624/)
- [Yet the righteous holdeth on his way, and he that hath clean hands waxeth stronger and stronger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.435/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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