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# reacheth

«reacheth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **reaches** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

reaches

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«reacheth» means «reaches», a form of «reach»: To reach is to get to a place: the train reached the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/reacheth/#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 reacheth» = «he reaches».

### examples

- We have shot at them — Heshbon is perished — even unto Dibon, and we have laid waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba. (Torah NUM.21.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/reacheth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «reach», 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

- [Thy lovingkindness, O LORD, is in the heavens; Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the skies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.565/)
- [For Thy mercy is great above the heavens, and Thy truth reacheth unto the skies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2002/)
- [She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.917/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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