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# hadst

verb, past tense of have with thou

«hadst» 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

you had. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hadst/#m1)

### Then and now

No longer used; today we say you had.

### Examples

- For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased abundantly; and the LORD hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned. (Torah GEN.30.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hadst/#x1)
- I threw away the gift thou hadst vouchsafed to me, I left my mission unfulfilled. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hadst/#x2)
- Surely now I had put forth My hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth. (Torah EXO.9.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hadst/#x3)

### Note

Today: had.

## On Mova

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