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# writeth

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

writes

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«writeth» means «writes», a form of «write»: To write means to put letters, words or numbers on paper or a screen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/writeth/#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 writeth» = «he writes».

### examples

- and the latter husband hateth her, and writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife; (Torah DEU.24.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/writeth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «write», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

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