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# begot

verb, past tense of beget

«begot» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

Became the father of. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/begot/#m1)

### Then and now

No longer used; today we say fathered.

### Examples

- And Jokshan begot Sheba, and Dedan. (Torah GEN.25.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/begot/#x1)
- And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Kenan. (Torah GEN.5.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/begot/#x2)
- And Kenan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalalel. (Torah GEN.5.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/begot/#x3)

### Note

Today: fathered.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «begot» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/begot/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«begot» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/begot.html) on Mova free.