WIST

Knew; the past tense, from an obsolete present wis, Exodus 16:15. Wot and wotteth, meaning know and knoweth, Genesis 21:26Genesis 1:39, and to wit, meaning to know, Genesis 24:21, are also from the same Saxon root. "Do you to wit," 2 Corinthians 8:1, means, make you to know, or inform you. "To wit," in 2 Corinthians 5:19, means, that is to say.


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