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# repenteth

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

repents

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«repenteth» means «repents», a form of «repent»: To repent is to feel truly sorry for something wrong you have done and to want to change. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/repenteth/#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 repenteth» = «he repents».

### examples

- And the LORD said: 'I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and creeping thing, and fowl of the air; for it repenteth Me that I have made them.' (Torah GEN.6.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/repenteth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «repent», 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 «repenteth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/repenteth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.