“biddeth” is a form of
bid
/bɪd/ verb, noun, adverb
Forms bids bidding bade bad bidden
- verb (transitive) To issue a command; to tell. “He bade me come in.”
- verb (transitive) To invite; to summon. “She was bidden to the wedding.”
- verb (transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.
- verb (obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
- verb (intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price. “Have you ever bid in an auction?”
- verb (transitive) To offer as a price; to tender. “She bid £2000 for the Persian carpet.”
- verb (intransitive) To make an attempt. “He was bidding for the chance to coach his team to victory once again.”
- verb (ambitransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
- verb (transitive, intransitive, trucking) To take a particular route regularly. “I can’t believe he bid the Syracuse turn; that can be brutal in the winter!”
- noun An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work. “His bid was $35,000.”
- noun (ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass. “Nice bid!”
- noun An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal). “Their efforts represented a sincere bid for success.”
- noun (trucking) A particular route that a driver regularly takes from their domicile. “I can’t stand this new bid I’m on, even if the mileage is better.”
- noun (prison slang) A prison sentence.
- adverb (pharmacology) twice a day, two times per day
Synonyms
bit command bidding dictation play tender offer wish beseech entreat adjure press conjure call invite
Etymology
From Middle English bidden, from Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”), from Proto-West Germanic *biddjan, from Proto-Germanic *bidjaną (“to ask”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ-. Conflated with Old English bēodan (“to offer, announce”) (see Etymology 2 below).
Compare West Frisian bidde, Low German bidden, Dutch bidden ("to pray"), German bitten, Danish bede, Norwegian Bokmål be.
From Middle English beden, from Old English bēodan (“to offer, announce”), from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“be awake, aware”). Conflated with Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”) (see Etymology 1 above). Compare Low German bieden, beden, Dutch bieden, German bieten, Danish byde, Norwegian Bokmål by. More at bede.
Borrowed from Latin bis in diē.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).
- verb To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc. Neither bid him God speed. 2. John 10.
- noun An offer of a price, especially at auctions; a statement of a sum which one will give for something to be received, or will take for something to be done or furnished; that which is offered.
- verb To pray. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Etymology [OE. bidden, prop to ask, beg, AS. biddan; akin to OS. biddian, Icel. bi, OHG. bittan, G. bitten, to pray, ask, request, and E. bead, also perh. to Gr. to persuade, L. fidere to trust, E. faith, and bide. But this word was early confused with OE. beden, beoden, AS. beódan, to offer, command; akin to Icel. bj, Goth. biudan (in comp.), OHG. biotan to command, bid, G. bieten, D. bieden, to offer, also to Gr. to learn by inquiry, Skr. budh to be awake, to heed, present OSlav. bud to be awake, E. bode, v. The word now has the form of OE. bidden to ask, but the meaning of OE. beden to command, except in "to bid beads." sq. root30.]
Etymology [See Bid, v. t.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “bid”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details