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# bestir

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

«bestir» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To bestir is to get up and start moving or acting, often after being lazy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bestir/#m1)
2. «Bestir yourself» means hurry up and get busy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bestir/#m2)

### 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

- Bestir yourself, you lazy old giant! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bestir/#x1)
- The news made the youths bestir themselves and set out at once. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bestir/#x2)
- It is late, so bestir yourself or we will miss the bus. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bestir/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bestir/#x1)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

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