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# sweareth

«sweareth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **swears** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

swears

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«sweareth» means «swears», a form of «swear»: To swear is to use rude or bad words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sweareth/#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 sweareth» = «he swears».

### examples

- When a man voweth a vow unto the LORD, or sweareth an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth. (Torah NUM.30.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sweareth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «swear», 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

### Trees and pragmatics

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