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title: א — Biblical Aramaic dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «א» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: Aleph. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# א

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«א‎» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: its 2 English meanings, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its verses: [א‎ in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0.md).

## Meaning (Jastrow 1903) {#m1}

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Aleph

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:aramaic:lemma_3a_5d0:m1:1
# text = Aleph
1	Aleph	aleph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## MACULA's glosses {#m2}

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king; God; the heavens

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:aramaic:lemma_3a_5d0:m2:1
# text = king; God; the heavens
1	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the English meanings of the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria) as their short meanings, and MACULA Hebrew's glosses (CC BY 4.0) when they read as English; the whole entries, dense with abbreviations and Hebrew, are not parsed. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Trees and frames: Elamur Cosmic License.

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