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# coverest

«coverest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you cover** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you cover

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«coverest» means «you cover», a form of «cover»: To cover is to put something over another thing to hide or protect it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/coverest/#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 coverest» = «you cover».

### examples

- Thou shalt make thee twisted cords upon the four corners of thy covering, wherewith thou coverest thyself. (Torah DEU.22.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/coverest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «cover», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Thou shalt make thee twisted cords upon the four corners of thy covering, wherewith thou coverest thyself.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.596/)
- [Who coverest Thyself with light as with a garment, who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1825/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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