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# hadst

«hadst» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **had** — 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

had

### part of speech

verb, past tense of have with thou

### meaning for a pupil

you had. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hadst/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say you had.

### examples

- For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased abundantly; and the LORD hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned. (Torah GEN.30.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hadst/#x1)
- I threw away the gift thou hadst vouchsafed to me, I left my mission unfulfilled. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hadst/#x2)
- Surely now I had put forth My hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth. (Torah EXO.9.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hadst/#x3)

### tests

manual 5; corpora 14 (Torah 3, tales 11, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.6 (Torah alone 7.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [When thou sawest a thief, thou hadst company with him, and with adulterers was thy portion.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.835/)
- [The mountains rose, the valleys sank down — unto the place which Thou hadst founded for them;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1831/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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