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title: אָזַן — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «אָזַן» in the Tanakh dictionary: give ear. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# אָזַן

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** ear

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«אָזַן‎» 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: [אָזַן‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/238.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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give ear

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:238:m1:1
# text = give ear
1	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | ear |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=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. denom.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:238:m2:1
# text = vb. denom.
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
3	denom	denom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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give; give ear; give ear to

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:238:m3:1
# text = give; give ear; give ear to
1	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | ear |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | ear |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=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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