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# toucheth

«toucheth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **touches** — 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

touches

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«toucheth» means «touches», a form of «touch»: To put your hand or another part of your body on something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/toucheth/#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 toucheth» = «he touches».

### examples

- He that toucheth the dead, even any man's dead body, shall be unclean seven days; (Torah NUM.19.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/toucheth/#x1)
- And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy; whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy. (Torah EXO.30.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/toucheth/#x2)
- And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire. (Torah LEV.7.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/toucheth/#x3)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «touch», a verb of EWT); corpora 30 (Torah 30, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 3.4 (Torah alone 70.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy; whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.917/)
- [And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.153/)
- [And by these ye shall become unclean; whosoever toucheth the carcass of them shall be unclean until even.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.278/)
- [And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.431/)
- [And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.447/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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