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# sitteth

«sitteth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **sits** — 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

sits

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«sitteth» means «sits», a form of «sit»: To sit is to rest your body on a seat or on the ground, with your weight on your bottom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sitteth/#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 sitteth» = «he sits».

### examples

- Every bed whereon he that hath the issue lieth shall be unclean; and every thing whereon he sitteth shall be unclean. (Torah LEV.15.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sitteth/#x1)
- In this chariot sitteth the lord over the kingdom of Benares, the great king Brahma-datta." (Indian Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sitteth/#x2)
- And every thing that she lieth upon in her impurity shall be unclean; every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. (Torah LEV.15.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sitteth/#x3)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «sit», a verb of EWT); corpora 10 (Torah 8, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.1 (Torah alone 18.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Every bed whereon he that hath the issue lieth shall be unclean; and every thing whereon he sitteth shall be unclean.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.430/)
- [And every thing that she lieth upon in her impurity shall be unclean; every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.446/)
- [And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.49/)
- [For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her arrogancy that sitteth still.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.625/)
- [He that sitteth in heaven laugheth, the Lord hath them in derision.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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