bestir

«bestir» in Mova's judaism dictionary: to get up and start moving or acting, often after being lazy — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (bestir, bestirs, bestirred, bestirring); reflexive «bestir yourself» (old use)

meaning for a pupil

1) To bestir is to get up and start moving or acting, often after being lazy. tree →

2) «Bestir yourself» means hurry up and get busy. tree →

sense in the lessons

in old stories a giant or hero is told to get up and act; in everyday talk it is an old-fashioned way of saying «get moving».

examples

• And it shall be, when thou hearest the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry-trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself; for then is the LORD gone out before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.' (Prophets 2SA.5.24, JPS 1917) tree →
• Bestir yourself, you lazy old giant! tree →
• The news made the youths bestir themselves and set out at once. tree →
• It is late, so bestir yourself or we will miss the bus. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

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