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# gatherest

verb, old form used with thou

«gatherest» 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

«gatherest» means «you gather», a form of «gather»: To gather is to come together in one place as a group. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/gatherest/#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 gatherest» = «you gather».

### Examples

- When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it after thee; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. (Torah DEU.24.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/gatherest/#x1)
- 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/G/gatherest/#x2)

### Note

Today: you gather.

## On Mova

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