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# stirreth

«stirreth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **stirs** — 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

stirs

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«stirreth» means «stirs», a form of «stir»: To stir is to move a spoon or stick round and round in a liquid or mixture to mix it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stirreth/#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 stirreth» = «he stirs».

### examples

- As an eagle that stirreth up her nest, hovereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her pinions — (Torah DEU.32.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stirreth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «stir», 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

- [Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love covereth all transgressions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.270/)
- [A soft answer turneth away wrath; but a grievous word stirreth up anger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.411/)
- [A wrathful man stirreth up discord; but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.428/)
- [He that is of a greedy spirit stirreth up strife; but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be abundantly gratified.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.829/)
- [An angry man stirreth up strife, and a wrathful man aboundeth in transgression.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.854/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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