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# killeth

«killeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **kills** — 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

kills

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«killeth» means «kills», a form of «kill»: To make a person, animal or plant die. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/killeth/#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 killeth» = «he kills».

### examples

- And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; and he that killeth a man shall be put to death. (Torah LEV.24.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/killeth/#x1)
- then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person through error may flee thither. (Torah NUM.35.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/killeth/#x2)
- Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die. (Torah NUM.35.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/killeth/#x3)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «kill», a verb of EWT); corpora 8 (Torah 8, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.9 (Torah alone 18.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; and he that killeth a man shall be put to death.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.730/)
- [The LORD killeth, and maketh alive; He bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.34/)
- [And the people answered him after this manner, saying: 'So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.478/)
- [The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.613/)
- [For anger killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.92/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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