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# shalt

«shalt» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **shall, will** — 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

shall, will

### part of speech

auxiliary verb, form of shall used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

You will, or you must (used as a command or promise). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shalt/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say you shall or you will. In the Torah it often gives a command, meaning you must.

### examples

- And thou shalt make settings of gold; (Torah EXO.28.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shalt/#x1)
- Thou shalt not be turned away. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shalt/#x2)
- Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. (Torah EXO.34.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/shalt/#x3)

### tests

manual 5; corpora 1055 (Torah 908, tales 147, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 119.5 (Torah alone 2118.8); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.79/)
- [But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.391/)
- ['As for Me, behold, My covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be the father of a multitude of nations.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.417/)
- [But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.659/)
- [and thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, so that he may bless thee before his death.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.783/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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