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# stealeth

«stealeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **steals** — 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

steals

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«stealeth» means «steals», a form of «steal»: To take something that belongs to someone else without permission and without meaning to give it back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stealeth/#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 stealeth» = «he steals».

### 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/stealeth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «steal», 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

- [That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm stealeth away?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.546/)
- [Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest stealeth him away in the night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.690/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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