floweth

Moves like water

Floweth is an archaic third-person singular form of flow, using the -eth ending that was standard in Early Modern English: The river floweth to the sea.

It survives mainly in religious texts, poetry, and deliberate archaism.

The phrase my cup runneth over from Psalm 23 preserves this construction.

water

river

Large flowing watercourse

streamSteady continuous flow
currentDirected flow of charge
springRecoiling metal spiral

fountain · brook · creek · tributary · waterfall · rapids · torrent · rivulet · wellspring · source

biblical

poureth

Archaic third-person flows

runnethOld English for flows
movethArchaic "goes" conjugation
passethArchaic form of goes

goeth · cometh · giveth · speaketh · bringeth · falleth · riseth · trickle · abundance

poetic

runneth

Old English for flows

pourethArchaic third-person flows
verseMetered poetic passage
lyricSong's text

archaic · Elizabethan · Shakespearean · scripture · psalm · hymn · ode · sonnet · stanza

Opposites

motion/movement

flowethstagnates

Ceases movement or progress

halts · pools · congeals · freezes · clots

linguistic register/era

flowethflows

Moves in a current

streams · runs · pours · gushes · trickles

continuity/smoothness

flowethstagnates

Ceases movement or progress

dries up · stands still · congeals · halts · stills

Phrases

ebbed and flowedVaried in recurring cycles

Family

flowed, overflowed

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