Meaning & use
Shalt
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An archaic second-person singular form of "shall," used with "thou" to indicate a command or future action.
See it in a sentence
"Thou shalt not steal" is one of the biblical Ten Commandments.
The old text read, "Thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother."
A note on using this word
"Shalt" survives mainly in religious, legal, and archaic or poetic English, especially in older Bible translations.
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