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# knoweth

«knoweth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **knows** — 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

knows

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«knoweth» means «knows», a form of «know»: To know something is to have it in your mind as a fact, because you learned it or were told. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/knoweth/#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 knoweth» = «he knows».

### examples

- And he was buried in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth-peor; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day. (Torah DEU.34.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/knoweth/#x1)
- I will gleam like the cloud, gleam in the sunshine of life, look out over the whole like the cloud, and pass away like it, no one knoweth whither." (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/knoweth/#x2)
- or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever his uncleanness be wherewith he is unclean, and it be hid from him; and, when he knoweth of it, be guilty; (Torah LEV.5.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/knoweth/#x3)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «know», a verb of EWT); corpora 7 (Torah 6, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.8 (Torah alone 14.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Curd and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.151/)
- [Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from His fierce anger, that we perish not?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JON.38/)
- [The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and He knoweth them that take refuge in Him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/NAM.9/)
- [The LORD knoweth the days of them that are wholehearted; and their inheritance shall be for ever.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.591/)
- [For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.733/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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