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# dost

«dost» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **do** — 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

do

### part of speech

verb, form of do with thou

### meaning for a pupil

Do something, with "thou" as the subject. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/dost/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "do" with "you."

### examples

- Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee. (Torah DEU.24.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/dost/#x1)
- "What dost thou want with me now?" (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/dost/#x2)
- When thou dost lend thy neighbour any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. (Torah DEU.24.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/dost/#x3)

### primary record

do

### tests

manual 5; corpora 183 (Torah 7, tales 176, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 20.7 (Torah alone 16.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [When thou dost lend thy neighbour any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.649/)
- [Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.650/)
- [After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.711/)
- [With the merciful Thou dost show Thyself merciful, with the upright man Thou dost show Thyself upright,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.685/)
- [With the pure Thou dost show myself pure; and with the crooked Thou dost show Thyself subtle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.686/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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