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# camest

verb, old form used with thou (past)

«camest» 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

«camest» means «you came», a form of «come»: To come is to move towards here, to the person speaking: Come here! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/camest/#m1)

### Then and now

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou camest» = «you came».

### Examples

- And he said: 'Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, whence camest thou? and whither goest thou?' And she said: 'I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.' (Torah GEN.16.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/camest/#x1)
- Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world! (The Jungle Book) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/camest/#x2)
- Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. (Torah EXO.34.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/camest/#x3)

### Note

Today: you came.

## On Mova

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