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# leaneth

«leaneth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **leans** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

leans

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«leaneth» means «leans», a form of «lean»: To lean is to bend your body towards something or away from straight: «Lean forward». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/leaneth/#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 leaneth» = «he leans».

### examples

- And the slope of the valleys that inclineth toward the seat of Ar, and leaneth upon the border of Moab. — (Torah NUM.21.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/leaneth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «lean», 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

- [And the slope of the valleys that inclineth toward the seat of Ar, and leaneth upon the border of Moab. —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.770/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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