taketh
Acquires, archaically speaking
Taketh is an archaic form of "takes," the third-person singular present tense.
The -eth ending was standard in Early Modern English and survives mainly through biblical quotation: The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
Outside religious or deliberately antique contexts, it sounds humorous or mock-solemn.
Archaic for grants
- LordHonorific for nobility
- awayNot in this location
- scriptureSacred religious writings
- JobBiblical patience exemplar
King James · thou · hath · receiveth · speaketh · verse · psalm · testament
Elizabethan dramatist and poet
- HamletDanish prince's revenge tragedy
- soliloquyDramatic speech to oneself
- dramaticStrikingly expressive or sudden
- stageRaised performance platform
Renaissance · iambic · verse · tragedy · monologue · player · performance · recitation
giveth
Archaic for grants
Job · King James · thou · hath · receiveth · speaketh · verse · psalm · testament · archaic
Shakespeare
Elizabethan dramatist and poet
- HamletDanish prince's revenge tragedy
- soliloquyDramatic speech to oneself
- dramaticStrikingly expressive or sudden
stage · Renaissance · iambic · verse · tragedy · monologue · player · performance · recitation · rhetoric
claimeth
Declares in biblical English
- keepethHolds, old verb form
- take careParting expression of concern
- take a lookBriefly observe something
- take offBegin flight, depart
- take your timeProceed without urgency
- take outFood ordered for elsewhere
- take overAssume control of something
take, taken, overtake, takes, mistakes, undertake, retake, mistakenly, taker