Word "thinketh" -- What does it mean?

babypumpkin · Mon Oct 01, 2007 17:52 pm *Word "thinketh" -- What does it mean?*

Is "thinketh" a word? What does it mean?

lost_soul · Mon Oct 01, 2007 18:13 pm *about "thinketh"*

It looks like an old-fashioned conjugation of the verb to think

Here are a few quotes from the Bible:

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away
My cup runneth over
etc...
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Yankee · Mon Oct 01, 2007 19:08 pm *about "thinketh"*

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Extremely old-fashioned... Laughing

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thinketh
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prezbucky · Wed Oct 03, 2007 17:44 pm *Word "thinketh" -- What does it mean?*

think/thinks/thought

He thinketh that the world is flat.

= He thinks that the world is flat.
= He thought (used to think) that the world is flat.

I wonder how (or if...) they were able to tell the difference between present and past tense.
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