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# showeth

«showeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **shows** — 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

shows

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«showeth» means «shows», a form of «show»: To show is to let someone see something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/showeth/#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 showeth» = «he shows».

### examples

- And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go; peradventure the LORD will come to meet me; and whatsoever He showeth me I will tell thee.' And he went to a bare height. (Torah NUM.23.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/showeth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «show», 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

- [Great salvation giveth He to His king; and showeth mercy to His anointed, to David and to his seed, for evermore.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.262/)
- [The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.265/)
- [When the hay is mown, and the tender grass showeth itself, and the herbs of the mountains are gathered in;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.802/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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