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# liveth

«liveth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **lives** — 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

lives

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«liveth» means «lives», a form of «live»: To live is to be alive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/liveth/#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 liveth» = «he lives».

### examples

- Every moving thing that liveth shall be for food for you; as the green herb have I given you all. (Torah GEN.9.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/liveth/#x1)
- Hereby ye shall be proved, as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. (Torah GEN.42.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/liveth/#x2)
- Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you; or else, as Pharaoh liveth, surely ye are spies.' (Torah GEN.42.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/liveth/#x3)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «live», a verb of EWT); corpora 4 (Torah 4, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.5 (Torah alone 9.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Every moving thing that liveth shall be for food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.220/)
- [Hereby ye shall be proved, as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1376/)
- [For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.608/)
- [As the LORD liveth, ye deserve to die, because ye have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD'S anointed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.784/)
- [The LORD liveth, and blessed be my Rock; and exalted be the God, my Rock of salvation;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.706/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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