An archaic third-person singular form of 'take,' used in older English texts like the King James Bible (e.g., 'he taketh').
From Old English tacan. The '-eth' suffix was the standard third-person singular ending in Early Modern English (1500s-1600s) before being replaced by '-s.' This form appears frequently in the King James Bible and Shakespeare's works.
The '-eth' ending in 'taketh' disappeared from English around the 1600s-1700s, but it survived longest in Bible readings and church language, which is why many people today recognize 'taketh' as sounding 'biblical' even though it was just normal English for several centuries.
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