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# looketh

«looketh» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **looks** — 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

looks

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«looketh» means «looks», a form of «look»: To look is to turn your eyes to see something: look at the board. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/looketh/#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 looketh» = «he looks».

### examples

- And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert. (Torah NUM.23.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/looketh/#x1)
- and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert. (Torah NUM.21.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/looketh/#x2)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «look», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.864/)
- [Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1145/)
- [The LORD looketh from heaven; He beholdeth all the sons of men;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.496/)
- [From the place of His habitation He looketh intently upon all the inhabitants of the earth;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.497/)
- [Who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1856/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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