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I've checked the discussion here and someone said that this verb must never be used in modern English. I've also looked up and this is the old use of has according to OALD. However, I found this sentence using that verb from an English app for learning idioms (it was released on 2019):

"He hath a heart AS SOUND AS A BELL and his tongue is the clapper, for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks."

I don't know if the sentence was taken from another resource or it's just the part of the idiom. Originally, the idiom in the sentence (that I took from the app) is the phrase in capital.

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    It is a quotation from Shakespear's Much Ado about Nothing, written in about 1598. It is early modern English, not modern English. Don't use hath unless you're trying to sound like Shakespeare. – Colin Fine Nov 28 '21 at 15:03
  • See also Hath or has? Which one is better to use? – FumbleFingers Nov 28 '21 at 18:15
  • @FumbleFingers that's the link I provided in my question above. I've read that. – user516076 Nov 28 '21 at 20:55
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    You could have just passed the first 10 words (or even less, maybe) of your cited text to Google, to quickly establish that it's a quote from Shakespeare, *over 400 years old. That, plus the fact that you obviously read the comment (quite correctly) saying "Hath" is never used in modern English [except facetiously]* should mean there was no need for you to ask here, or for anyone to post another answer on the same topic. – FumbleFingers Nov 29 '21 at 13:01
  • @FumbleFingers because I didn't think of that. Sometimes it's faster asking questions in this site rather than spending lots of time answering my own question when I can use that time to study something else and leave this question to be answered. I mean, as I said since it's taken from the app I've mentioned, I was still doubting whether I can use this verb. Besides, how could you expect a newbie to know everything just because the topic's been discussed? Not everyone is smart! (Including me). – user516076 Nov 30 '21 at 02:41
  • My apologies. I was obviously a bit tetchy yesterday. And carelessly hasty with my closevote, since I hadn't even bothered to read your question properly and take note that you'd already read the earlier question. If having done that you still seek clarification, we (by which I mean me in particular) should just accept that and try to help. To paraphrase an old saying - if you come here seeking a fish to eat right now, you don't want to be given instructions on where to buy or how to make a fishing rod! :) – FumbleFingers Nov 30 '21 at 11:36

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No. Hath is archaic and is not used in current spoken or written English, unless you are deliberately trying to sound very old-fashioned (as in, 400 years out-of-date).

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