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# drinketh

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

«drinketh» 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

«drinketh» means «drinks», a form of «drink»: To drink is to take water, milk, juice or another liquid into your mouth and swallow it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/drinketh/#m1)

### Then and now

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

### Examples

- Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.' (Torah GEN.44.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/drinketh/#x1)
- but the land, whither ye go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water as the rain of heaven cometh down; (Torah DEU.11.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/drinketh/#x2)

### Note

Today: drinks.

## On Mova

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