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# camest

«camest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you came** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you came

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou (past)

### meaning for a pupil

«camest» means «you came», a form of «come»: To come is to move towards here, to the person speaking: Come here! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/camest/#m1)

### 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 camest» = «you came».

### examples

- And he said: 'Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, whence camest thou? and whither goest thou?' And she said: 'I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.' (Torah GEN.16.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/camest/#x1)
- Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world! (The Jungle Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/camest/#x2)
- Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. (Torah EXO.34.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/camest/#x3)

### tests

ending -est (stem «came», a verb of EWT); corpora 11 (Torah 9, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.2 (Torah alone 21.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

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