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# needeth

«needeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **needs** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

needs

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«needeth» means «needs», a form of «need»: To need something is to have to have it, because you cannot do well without it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/needeth/#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 needeth» = «he needs».

### examples

- And Esau said: 'Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me.' And he said: 'What needeth it? let me find favour in the sight of my lord.' (Torah GEN.33.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/needeth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «need», 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

### Trees and pragmatics

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