reapest

[birdy]

It was not allowed in Monday's game.  Found it in a concordance to the King James Bible: 

Leviticus 23:22

Luke 19:21

[Steadyguy]

It was not allowed in Monday's game.  Found it in a concordance to the King James Bible: 

Leviticus 23:22

Luke 19:1

But Birdy, does that make 'reapest' a rare word? I am inclined to agree with you although I have to say that the Bible is not read too often in this day and age. Although I suppose many will disagree with me.

[birdy]

I don't really care if it's rare or common since I'm not trying to limit myself just to the common words.  I just want a real word to be allowed!

[Alan W]

I have followed the practice so far of allowing old verb forms like reapest where they were used a few times in the King James Bible, or in Shakespeare or other works of literature that some of us may have encountered. The third person form reapeth was also used in the Bible - for example, "And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth." This inevitably raises the further question, what about soweth and sowest? These words are used more frequently than the reap forms in the King James Bible, especially soweth, which appears 13 times.

SG, I think there are still quite a few people reading the Bible, certainly more than read the average Booker or Pulitzer Prize winner. But perhaps you were thinking specifically of the King James version, which I would agree is probably not familiar to many these days. Nevertheless, I think it still holds a secure place in English literature, and there are numerous Biblical phrases in common use as sayings.

So I believe all four of these words ought to be added to our list. Certainly they will be rare, as archaic words. (There are a handful of archaic words we class as common, I think. Shalt is one, and it is used so often in literature that I feel it does qualify as a common word.)

[birdy]

Thank you, Alan.  Even though I don't worry too much about the percentage of disallowed words, I always feel a bit of chagrin when I enter one that I am pretty sure is a word and it's not allowed.

And even though I'm not very religious, I do prefer the King James version when I read (or quote) the Bible.