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  • verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of chew

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chew + -eth

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Examples

  • Notably, a similar description and injunction can be found in the Old Testament: And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven footed, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.

    Engy Abdelkader: What's Pork Got To Do With It? Engy Abdelkader 2011

  • Notably, a similar description and injunction can be found in the Old Testament: And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven footed, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.

    Engy Abdelkader: What's Pork Got To Do With It? Engy Abdelkader 2011

  • The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven-footed, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.

    Leviticus 11. 1999

  • The carcasses of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.

    Leviticus 11. 1999

  • And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.

    Leviticus 11. 1999

  • And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.

    Leviticus 11. 1999

  • Nevertheless, these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.

    Leviticus 11. 1999

  • Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.

    Leviticus 11. 1999

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