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# keepeth

«keepeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **keeps** — 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

keeps

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«keepeth» means «keeps», a form of «keep»: To keep something is to go on having it and not give it away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/keepeth/#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 keepeth» = «he keeps».

### examples

- Know therefore that the LORD thy God, He is God; the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations; (Torah DEU.7.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/keepeth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «keep», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation that keepeth faithfulness may enter in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.524/)
- [He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.526/)
- [He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; He that keepeth thee will not slumber.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2353/)
- [Behold, He that keepeth Israel doth neither slumber nor sleep.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2354/)
- [Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is; who keepeth truth for ever;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2642/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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