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# meeteth

«meeteth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **meets** — 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

meets

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«meeteth» means «meets», a form of «meet»: To meet is to come together with someone at the same place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/meeteth/#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 meeteth» = «he meets».

### examples

- The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death. (Torah NUM.35.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/meeteth/#x1)
- And he commanded the foremost, saying: 'When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying: Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee? (Torah GEN.32.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/meeteth/#x2)
- or in enmity smote him with his hand, that he died; he that smote him shall surely be put to death: he is a murderer; the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meeteth him. (Torah NUM.35.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/meeteth/#x3)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «meet», a verb of EWT); corpora 3 (Torah 3, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 7.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1295/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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