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# lacketh

«lacketh» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **lacks** — 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

lacks

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«lacketh» means «lacks», a form of «lack»: To lack means not to have something, or not to have enough of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/lacketh/#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 lacketh» = «he lacks».

### examples

- and they said unto Moses: 'Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war that are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us. (Torah NUM.31.49, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/lacketh/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «lack», 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

- [He that committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding; he doeth it that would destroy his own soul.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.173/)
- ['Whoso is thoughtless, let him turn in hither'; as for him that lacketh understanding, she saith to him:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.243/)
- ['Whoso is thoughtless, let him turn in hither'; and as for him that lacketh understanding, she saith to him:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.255/)
- [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/)
- [Folly is joy to him that lacketh understanding; but a man of discernment walketh straightforwards.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.431/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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