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# trieth

«trieth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **tries** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

tries

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«trieth» means «tries», a form of «try»: To make an effort to do something: "Try to finish." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/trieth/#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 trieth» = «he tries».

### examples

- The Twenty-fifth Path is the Intelligence of Proba- tion, or is Tentative, and is so called because it is the primary temptation, by which the Creator trieth all righteous persons. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/trieth/#x1)
- The Twenty-fifth Path is the Intelligence of Probation, or is Tentative, and is so called because it is the primary temptation, by which the Creator (blessed be He) trieth all righteous persons. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/trieth/#x2)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «try», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 0, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 2); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [The LORD trieth the righteous; but the wicked and him that loveth violence His soul hateth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.142/)
- [The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but the LORD trieth the hearts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.479/)
- [For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.880/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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