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# becometh

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

«becometh» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

«becometh» means «becomes», a form of «become»: To become is to start to be something. A seed becomes a plant. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/becometh/#m1)

### Then and now

Only the ending is old: -eth was the ending for he, she and it, where today we say -s: «he becometh» = «he becomes».

### Examples

- and she departeth out of his house, and goeth and becometh another man's wife, (Torah DEU.24.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/becometh/#x1)

### Note

Today: becomes.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «becometh» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/becometh/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«becometh» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/becometh.html) on Mova free.