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# repenteth

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

«repenteth» 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

«repenteth» means «repents», a form of «repent»: To repent is to feel truly sorry for something wrong you have done and to want to change. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/repenteth/#m1)

### Then and now

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

### Examples

- And the LORD said: 'I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and creeping thing, and fowl of the air; for it repenteth Me that I have made them.' (Torah GEN.6.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/repenteth/#x1)

### Note

Today: repents.

## On Mova

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