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# saith

«saith» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **says** — 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

says

### part of speech

verb, third person singular present of say

### meaning for a pupil

He says or declares; the speaker is telling you what someone says. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/saith/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say says. The sentences use the same sense.

### examples

- And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh: Thus saith the LORD: Israel is My son, My first-born. (Torah EXO.4.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/saith/#x1)
- Hear what little Red-Eye saith: “Nag, come up and dance with death!” (The Jungle Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/saith/#x2)
- And Moses said: 'Thus saith the LORD: About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt; (Torah EXO.11.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/saith/#x3)

### tests

manual 4; corpora 22 (Torah 21, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.5 (Torah alone 49.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh: Thus saith the LORD: Israel is My son, My first-born.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.102/)
- [And Moses said: 'Thus saith the LORD: About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.304/)
- [As saith the proverb of the ancients: Out of the wicked cometh forth wickedness; but my hand shall not be upon thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.710/)
- ['Go and tell My servant David: Thus saith the LORD: Shalt thou build Me a house for Me to dwell in?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.182/)
- [Then said Absalom: 'Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.485/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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