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# breatheth

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

«breatheth» 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

«breatheth» means «breathes», a form of «breathe»: To breathe is to take air into your body and let it out again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/breatheth/#m1)

### Then and now

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

### Examples

- Howbeit of the cities of these peoples, that the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth, (Torah DEU.20.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/breatheth/#x1)

### Note

Today: breathes.

## On Mova

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