Ye is an old-fashioned, poetic, or religious word for you when you are talking to more than one person.
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
2. determiner
Ye is sometimes used in imitation of an old written form of the word 'the'.
...Ye Olde Tea Shoppe.
ye in British English1
(jiː, unstressed jɪ)
pronoun
1. archaic or dialect
refers to more than one person including the person addressed but not including the speaker
2. Also: ee (iː) dialect
refers to one person addressed
I tell ye
Word origin
Old English gē; related to Dutch gij, Old Norse ēr, Gothic jus
ye in British English2
(ðiː, spelling pron jiː)
determiner
a form of the, used in conjunction with other putative archaic spellings
ye olde oake
Word origin
from a misinterpretation of the as written in some Middle English texts. The runic letter thorn (Þ, representingth) was incorrectly transcribed as y because of a resemblance in their shapes
ye in British English3
the internet domain name for
Yemen
ye in American English1
(ðə; ðɪ; ði; now often erroneously or facetiously ji)
adjective, definite article
Archaic
the
y was substituted by early printers for the thorn (þ), the Old and Middle English characterrepresenting the sound (th) or (t h): sometimes written ye
ye in American English2
(ji)
pronoun
Archaic
you
first used only as nominative plural, later as nominative singular, and still later,esp. in dialectal speech, as objective singular and plural
Word origin
ME < OE ge, ye, nom. pl. corresponding to thu, thou, akin to Goth jus, but with vowel modified after we (see we): for IE base see you
Examples of 'ye' in a sentence
ye
Wind ye down there, ye prouder, sadder souls!
Herman Melville Moby Dick (1901)
O praise ye the Lord!
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Somehow people don't understand "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I'll give you rest.