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# smote

«smote» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **struck** — 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

struck

### part of speech

verb, past tense of smite

### meaning for a pupil

Hit hard or struck down, in the past. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/smote/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Old past form of smite; today we say struck or hit. The sentences use the old sense, including striking down with a plague or defeat.

### examples

- And the LORD smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made. (Torah EXO.32.35, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/smote/#x1)
- The Beetle smote upon the drum. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/smote/#x2)
- the land which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.' (Torah NUM.32.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/smote/#x3)

### primary record

struck

### tests

manual 6; corpora 72 (Torah 36, tales 36, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 8.2 (Torah alone 84.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And the LORD smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.980/)
- [the land which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1152/)
- [And the LORD our God delivered him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.79/)
- [And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.263/)
- [And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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