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to liveth

to liveth

1 9.9
An old word form people use with he, she, or it to say someone is alive
  • verb
  • Archaic
translation icon : vive
  • With longing, all my heart is filled, / That like Him I may be, / As on the wondrous thought I dwell / That Christ liveth in me.

But he, part of him, genuinely, Liam lives in me, right?

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Examples

  • But Jesus ever liveth to deliver all who trust in Him.

  • "He ever liveth to make intercession for them" (Heb. 7:25).

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  • "But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth."

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  • Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

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  • For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God.

  • "He ever liveth to make intercession for them" (Heb. 7:25).

Surface Forms

liveth third person singular

Morphology

liveth = live (semi-transparent) = live + eth

The form is a straightforward archaic 3rd-person singular suffix '-eth' added to 'live', so the meaning is derivable but the archaic inflection may be unfamiliar to modern learners.

Etymology

The word liveth is an old form of live with the ending -eth, which older English used instead of our 's', so liveth simply means 'lives', as you see in Shakespeare or the King James Bible.