standest

«standest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you stand — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you stand

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«standest» means «you stand», a form of «stand»: To stand is to be on your feet with your body upright. 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 standest» = «you stand».

examples

• And He said: 'Draw not nigh hither; put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.' (Torah EXO.3.5, JPS 1917) tree →
• And he said: 'Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have cleared the house, and made room for the camels.' (Torah GEN.24.31, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «stand», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Why standest Thou afar off, O LORD?

Trees and pragmatics

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