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# seemeth

«seemeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **seems** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

seems

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«seemeth» means «seems», a form of «seem»: To seem means to look or appear to be something, from what you can see or know: «She seems happy». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/seemeth/#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 seemeth» = «he seems».

### examples

- then he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying: 'There seemeth to me to be as it were a plague in the house.' (Torah LEV.14.35, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/seemeth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «seem», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And he said: 'It is the LORD; let Him do what seemeth Him good.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.91/)
- [There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.386/)
- [There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.468/)
- [He that pleadeth his cause first seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.521/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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