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# gavest

«gavest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you gave** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you gave

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou (past)

### meaning for a pupil

«gavest» means «you gave», a form of «give»: To give is to let someone have something of yours: give a present. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/gavest/#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 gavest» = «you gave».

### examples

- And the man said: 'The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.' (Torah GEN.3.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/gavest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «gave», a verb of EWT); corpora 3 (Torah 1, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [that they may fear Thee all the days that they live in the land which Thou gavest unto our fathers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.322/)
- [and gavest them this land, which Thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.897/)
- [He asked life of Thee, Thou gavest it him; even length of days for ever and ever.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.297/)
- [Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, Thou gavest him to be food to the folk inhabiting the wilderness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1267/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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