bringest
kind
archaic form
modern equivalent
you bring
part of speech
verb, old form used with thou
meaning for a pupil
«bringest» means «you bring», a form of «bring»: To bring is to carry something to a place where someone is: «Bring your book to school». tree →
how it differs from today
Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou bringest» = «you bring».
examples
- And when thou bringest a meal-offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers spread with oil. (Torah LEV.2.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- Now, when the Jews who were inside there saw the little ram, they began shrieking and said, "What art thou thinking of, O man! that thou bringest that little ram into the room? (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →
- Thou bringest them in, and plantest them in the mountain of Thine inheritance, the place, O LORD, which Thou hast made for Thee to dwell in, the sanctuary, O Lord, which Thy hands have established. (Torah EXO.15.17, JPS 1917) tree →
tests
ending -est (stem «bring», a verb of EWT); corpora 4 (Torah 2, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.5 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bringest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.