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# begot

«begot» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **fathered** — 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

fathered

### part of speech

verb, past tense of beget

### meaning for a pupil

Became the father of. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/begot/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say fathered.

### examples

- And Jokshan begot Sheba, and Dedan. (Torah GEN.25.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/begot/#x1)
- And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Kenan. (Torah GEN.5.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/begot/#x2)
- And Kenan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalalel. (Torah GEN.5.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/begot/#x3)

### tests

manual 6; corpora 71 (Torah 71, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 8.0 (Torah alone 165.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And unto Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begot Mehujael; and Mehujael begot Methushael; and Methushael begot Lamech.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.107/)
- [And the days of Adam after he begot Seth were eight hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.120/)
- [And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enosh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.122/)
- [And Seth lived after he begot Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.123/)
- [And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Kenan.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.125/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «begot» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/begot/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.