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ProposedGrammaticalKJVRule #18

dothdoes

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The third-person -th form of do, as helping verb and main verb; does serves both. Pending review.

Proposed by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026

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About 219 places across the KJV corpus, estimated: 219 in a random sample of 1 of 1 works.

Drawn Oct 19, 2026, 6:06 PM against rule-set version 17 · 1 sample drawn · no exact count yet (the overnight batch count is not built). Shown in original spelling.

  1. …yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which dothdoes not profit.

    The King James translators · King James Version · Jer 2:11 · Open in the reader

  2. …and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar dothdoes inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from…

    The King James translators · King James Version · Isa 42:11 · Open in the reader

  3. …voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God dothdoes talk with man, and he liveth.

    The King James translators · King James Version · Deut 5:24 · Open in the reader

  4. And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, dothdoes fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or…

    The King James translators · King James Version · Lev 11:32 · Open in the reader

  5. …hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why dothdoes he yet hope for?

    The King James translators · King James Version · Rom 8:24 · Open in the reader

  6. …her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man dothdoes come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou…

    The King James translators · King James Version · Judg 4:20 · Open in the reader

  7. A brutish man knoweth not; neither dothdoes a fool understand this.

    The King James translators · King James Version · Ps 92:6 · Open in the reader

  8. Is his mercy clean gone for ever? dothdoes his promise fail for evermore?

    The King James translators · King James Version · Ps 77:8 · Open in the reader

  9. What dothdoes it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not…

    The King James translators · King James Version · Jas 2:14 · Open in the reader

  10. But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow dothdoes not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.

    The King James translators · King James Version · Matt 12:24 · Open in the reader

  11. …will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God of that which dothdoes cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for…

    The King James translators · King James Version · 2 Sam 24:24 · Open in the reader

  12. …it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he dothdoes not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God…

    The King James translators · King James Version · Rom 14:6 · Open in the reader

  13. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel dothdoes not know, my people doth not consider.

    The King James translators · King James Version · Isa 1:3 · Open in the reader

  14. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law dothdoes he meditate day and night.

    The King James translators · King James Version · Ps 1:2 · Open in the reader

  15. DothDoes the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?

    The King James translators · King James Version · Job 39:27 · Open in the reader

  16. If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; dothdoes not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy…

    The King James translators · King James Version · Prov 24:12 · Open in the reader

  17. …among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain dothdoes nourish it.

    The King James translators · King James Version · Isa 44:14 · Open in the reader

  18. …ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, dothdoes he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and…

    The King James translators · King James Version · Matt 18:12 · Open in the reader

  19. …Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, DothDoes not your master pay tribute?

    The King James translators · King James Version · Matt 17:24 · Open in the reader

  20. …your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that dothdoes sanctify you.

    The King James translators · King James Version · Exod 31:13 · Open in the reader

  21. …cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which dothdoes so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is…

    The King James translators · King James Version · Heb 12:1 · Open in the reader

  22. And they say, How dothdoes God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

    The King James translators · King James Version · Ps 73:11 · Open in the reader

  23. …are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the Lord our God dothdoes give unto us.

    The King James translators · King James Version · Deut 1:20 · Open in the reader

  24. DothDoes a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

    The King James translators · King James Version · Jas 3:11 · Open in the reader

  25. The boar out of the wood dothdoes waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

    The King James translators · King James Version · Ps 80:13 · Open in the reader

  26. DothDoes not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even…

    The King James translators · King James Version · Job 4:21 · Open in the reader

  27. Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither dothdoes his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off…

    The King James translators · King James Version · Isa 10:7 · Open in the reader

  28. Servants have ruled over us: there is none that dothdoes deliver us out of their hand.

    The King James translators · King James Version · Lam 5:8 · Open in the reader

  29. DothDoes the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of…

    The King James translators · King James Version · Isa 28:24 · Open in the reader

  30. He saith unto them, How then dothdoes David in spirit call him Lord, saying,

    The King James translators · King James Version · Matt 22:43 · Open in the reader

  31. For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, dothdoes take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the…

    The King James translators · King James Version · Isa 3:1 · Open in the reader

  32. Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that dothdoes keep his soul shall be far from them.

    The King James translators · King James Version · Prov 22:5 · Open in the reader

  33. Again, When a righteous man dothdoes turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a…

    The King James translators · King James Version · Ezek 3:20 · Open in the reader

  34. Wherefore dothdoes a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

    The King James translators · King James Version · Lam 3:39 · Open in the reader

  35. These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever dothdoes touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.

    The King James translators · King James Version · Lev 11:31 · Open in the reader

  36. He dothdoes execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the…

    The King James translators · King James Version · Deut 10:18 · Open in the reader

  37. But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God dothdoes give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that…

    The King James translators · King James Version · Deut 20:16 · Open in the reader

  38. And whosoever dothdoes not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

    The King James translators · King James Version · Luke 14:27 · Open in the reader

  39. For the mystery of iniquity dothdoes already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken…

    The King James translators · King James Version · 2 Thess 2:7 · Open in the reader

  40. …with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore dothdoes the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that…

    The King James translators · King James Version · Jer 12:1 · Open in the reader

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  1. Proposed by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026, 6:06 PMversion 18

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