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# speaketh

«speaketh» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **speaks** — 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

speaks

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«speaketh» means «speaks», a form of «speak»: To say words out loud; to talk: "Speak clearly." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/speaketh/#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 speaketh» = «he speaks».

### examples

- And they said unto him: 'Wherefore speaketh my lord such words as these? (Torah GEN.44.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/speaketh/#x1)
- "See, see, she hangeth by the throte, and therefor she speaketh not," saide others; "and the beast flieth not like a beast;" so she opened her mouth and "pashte hir all to pieces." (Indian Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/speaketh/#x2)
- And the LORD spoke unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. (Torah EXO.33.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/speaketh/#x3)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «speak», a verb of EWT); corpora 8 (Torah 7, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.9 (Torah alone 16.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And they said unto him: 'Wherefore speaketh my lord such words as these?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1444/)
- [And the LORD spoke unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.992/)
- [Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.297/)
- [They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.74/)
- [May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh proud things!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.149/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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