lighteth
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[edit]Verb
[edit]lighteth
- (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative of light
- 1534, The first New Testament printed in English[1]:
- A city that is set on an hill, cannot be hid, neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it lighteth all them which are in the house.
- 1874, Charles Kingsley, All Saints' Day and Other Sermons[2]:
- Is there not in every one of them, as in you, the Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world?
- 1927, Barbara R. Sims, Japan Will Turn Ablaze![3]:
- Verily thy Lord lighteth the lamp of Love in the heart of whomsoever He chooseth.