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# sowest

«sowest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you sow** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you sow

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«sowest» means «you sow», a form of «sow»: (verb, rhymes with go) To plant seeds in the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sowest/#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 sowest» = «you sow».

### examples

- and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours, which thou sowest in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field. (Torah EXO.23.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sowest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «sow», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

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