hath

Owns, in scripture

Hath is an archaic form of "has," the third-person singular present tense of "have." It survives in religious texts, Shakespeare, and deliberate archaism: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

Outside quotation or stylized effect, hath sounds affected in modern speech.

archaic

thou

Archaic second-person pronoun

theeSecond-person object, antiquated
thyOld possessive pronoun
thineYours, archaically

doth · dost · art · shalt · wilt · ere · whence · wherefore · betwixt · nigh

literary

Shakespeare

Elizabethan dramatist and poet

SpenserTudor allegorical poet
sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
verseMetered poetic passage

Marlowe · quoth · prithee · forsooth · anon · fain · oft · alas · fie · nay

biblical

scripture

Sacred religious writings

commandmentsAuthoritative rules demanding compliance
prophetsProclaimers of sacred truth
disciplesDevoted followers of teachings

apostles · parable · begat · abideth · wrought · Genesis · Exodus · Leviticus · Deuteronomy · Revelation

Categories

Archaismsthee, thou, thy, thine, ye
old-fashioned wordsforsooth, hark, betwixt, hither, prithee
Bible Wordsthou, thee, thy, thine, unto
Biblical Englishthou, thee, thy, thine, ye
Olde Englishthee, thou, thy, thine, doth
archaic Englishthou, thee, thy, thine, ye

Opposites

possession/having

Archaic lacks or desires

lacks · wants · needeth

linguistic register/era

hathhas

Holds in possession

have · possesses · owns · holds

temporal register

hathhas

Holds in possession

informal speech · colloquial

Phrases

hell hath no fury

Family

have, had, has, having, hasn't, hadn't, haven't, haves, hast

Familiarity: Top 200,000
Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G