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# selleth

«selleth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **sells** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

sells

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«selleth» means «sells», a form of «sell»: To sell is to give something to someone for money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/selleth/#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 selleth» = «he sells».

### examples

- And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. (Torah EXO.21.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/selleth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «sell», 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

- [He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him; but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.316/)
- [She maketh linen garments and selleth them; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.921/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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