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# bestir

«bestir» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to get up and start moving or acting, often after being lazy** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (bestir, bestirs, bestirred, bestirring); reflexive «bestir yourself» (old use)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To bestir is to get up and start moving or acting, often after being lazy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bestir/#m1)

2) «Bestir yourself» means hurry up and get busy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bestir/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old stories a giant or hero is told to get up and act; in everyday talk it is an old-fashioned way of saying «get moving».

### examples

- And it shall be, when thou hearest the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry-trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself; for then is the LORD gone out before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.' (Prophets 2SA.5.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bestir/#x1)
- Bestir yourself, you lazy old giant! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bestir/#x2)
- The news made the youths bestir themselves and set out at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bestir/#x3)
- It is late, so bestir yourself or we will miss the bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bestir/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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