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# putteth

«putteth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **puts** — 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

puts

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«putteth» means «puts», a form of «put»: To put is to move something to a place: put the cup on the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/putteth/#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 putteth» = «he puts».

### examples

- And he answered and said: 'Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD putteth in my mouth?' (Torah NUM.23.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/putteth/#x1)
- Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.' (Torah EXO.30.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/putteth/#x2)
- And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Lo, I am come unto thee; have I now any power at all to speak any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.' (Torah NUM.22.38, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/P/putteth/#x3)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «put», a verb of EWT); corpora 5 (Torah 5, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 11.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And he answered and said: 'Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD putteth in my mouth?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.847/)
- [He that putteth not out his money on interest, nor taketh a bribe against the innocent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.181/)
- [For God is judge; He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1285/)
- [Let it be unto him as the garment which he putteth on, and for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2033/)
- [He that is of a greedy spirit stirreth up strife; but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be abundantly gratified.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.829/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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