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# meaneth

«meaneth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **means** — 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

means

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«meaneth» means «means», a form of «mean»: To mean is to have a sense: What does this word mean? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/meaneth/#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 meaneth» = «he means».

### examples

- even all the nations shall say 'Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?' (Torah DEU.29.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/meaneth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «mean», 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

- [Then I said unto them: What meaneth the high place whereunto ye go?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.483/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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