gavest

«gavest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you gave — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you gave

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou (past)

meaning for a pupil

«gavest» means «you gave», a form of «give»: To give is to let someone have something of yours: give a present. 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 gavest» = «you gave».

examples

• And the man said: 'The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.' (Torah GEN.3.12, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «gave», a verb of EWT); corpora 3 (Torah 1, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• that they may fear Thee all the days that they live in the land which Thou gavest unto our fathers.
• and gavest them this land, which Thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
• He asked life of Thee, Thou gavest it him; even length of days for ever and ever.
• Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, Thou gavest him to be food to the folk inhabiting the wilderness.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gavest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.