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# washeth

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

washes

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«washeth» means «washes», a form of «wash»: To clean something or someone with water and usually soap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/washeth/#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 washeth» = «he washes».

### examples

- Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washeth his garments in wine, and his vesture in the blood of grapes; (Torah GEN.49.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/washeth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «wash», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

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