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# looketh

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

«looketh» 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

«looketh» means «looks», a form of «look»: To look is to turn your eyes to see something: look at the board. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/looketh/#m1)

### Then and now

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

### Examples

- And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert. (Torah NUM.23.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/looketh/#x1)
- and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert. (Torah NUM.21.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/looketh/#x2)

### Note

Today: looks.

## On Mova

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