smote

«smote» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: struck — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

struck

part of speech

verb, past tense of smite

meaning for a pupil

Hit hard or struck down, in the past. tree →

how it differs from today

Old past form of smite; today we say struck or hit. The sentences use the old sense, including striking down with a plague or defeat.

examples

• And the LORD smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made. (Torah EXO.32.35, JPS 1917) tree →
• The Beetle smote upon the drum. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• the land which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.' (Torah NUM.32.4, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

struck

tests

manual 6; corpora 72 (Torah 36, tales 36, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 8.2 (Torah alone 84.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And the LORD smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
• the land which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.'
• And the LORD our God delivered him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
• And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.
• And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

Trees and pragmatics

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