[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/maketh.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Early Modern English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/) / maketh

[← M](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/M/)

# maketh

«maketh» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **makes** — 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

makes

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«maketh» means «makes», a form of «make»: To make is to build, cook or create something: make a cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/maketh/#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 maketh» = «he makes».

### examples

- Cursed be he that maketh the blind to go astray in the way. (Torah DEU.27.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/maketh/#x1)
- As is the sin-offering, so is the guilt-offering; there is one law for them; the priest that maketh atonement therewith, he shall have it. (Torah LEV.7.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/maketh/#x2)
- 'Speak unto the children of Israel, that they take for Me an offering; of every man whose heart maketh him willing ye shall take My offering. (Torah EXO.25.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/maketh/#x3)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «make», a verb of EWT); corpora 13 (Torah 10, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 3); EWT 0; ratio 1.5 (Torah alone 23.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Cursed be he that maketh the blind to go astray in the way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.720/)
- [The LORD killeth, and maketh alive; He bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.34/)
- [The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich; He bringeth low, He also lifteth up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.35/)
- [Who maketh my feet like hinds', and setteth me upon my high places;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.693/)
- [That bringeth princes to nothing; He maketh the judges of the earth as a thing of nought.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.862/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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