hadst
kind
archaic form
modern equivalent
had
part of speech
verb, past tense of have with thou
meaning for a pupil
you had. tree →
how it differs from today
No longer used; today we say you had.
examples
- For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased abundantly; and the LORD hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned. (Torah GEN.30.30, JPS 1917) tree →
- I threw away the gift thou hadst vouchsafed to me, I left my mission unfulfilled. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
- Surely now I had put forth My hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth. (Torah EXO.9.15, JPS 1917) tree →
tests
manual 5; corpora 14 (Torah 3, tales 11, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.6 (Torah alone 7.0); Wiktionary no archaic label
In the corpora
- When thou sawest a thief, thou hadst company with him, and with adulterers was thy portion.
- The mountains rose, the valleys sank down — unto the place which Thou hadst founded for them;
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «hadst» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.