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title: אוֹר — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «אוֹר» in the Tanakh dictionary: be light. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# אוֹר

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, make, give · **To what, where:** shine, light

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«אוֹר‎» in the Tanakh dictionary: its 3 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: [אוֹר‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/215.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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be light

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:215:m1:1
# text = be light
1	be	be	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | light *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## Meaning (BDB 1906) {#m2}

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vb. be

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:215:m2:1
# text = vb. be
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
```

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

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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make shine; give light; light up

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:215:m3:1
# text = make shine; give light; light up
1	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	shine	shine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | shine |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shine=Product |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | light |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme |

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**Text:** the English meanings of the Tanakh dictionary: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 (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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