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# knowest

«knowest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you know** — 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

you know

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«knowest» means «you know», a form of «know»: To know something is to have it in your mind as a fact, because you learned it or were told. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/knowest/#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 knowest» = «you know».

### examples

- And if thou knowest any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.' (Torah GEN.47.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/knowest/#x1)
- Say, knowest thou aught of Mabon?" (Celtic Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/knowest/#x2)
- And he said unto him: 'Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me. (Torah GEN.30.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/K/knowest/#x3)

### tests

ending -est (stem «know», a verb of EWT); corpora 31 (Torah 12, tales 19, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 3.5 (Torah alone 28.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And he said unto him: 'Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.917/)
- [And if thou knowest any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1545/)
- [And David said unto the young man that told him: 'How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.5/)
- [And what can David say more unto Thee? for Thou knowest Thy servant, O Lord GOD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.198/)
- [And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and thou, my lord the king, knowest it not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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