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# teareth

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

tears

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«teareth» means «tears», a form of «tear»: A tear (rhymes with «ear») is a drop of salty water that comes from your eye, when you cry, laugh a lot or get something in your eye. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/teareth/#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 teareth» = «he tears».

### examples

- And of Gad he said: Blessed be He that enlargeth Gad; he dwelleth as a lioness, and teareth the arm, yea, the crown of the head. (Torah DEU.33.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/teareth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «tear», 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 «teareth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/teareth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.