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

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**Who acts:** they · **What happens:** believe, let, establish · **To what, where:** it · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«אָמַן‎» 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: [אָמַן‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/539.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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confirm

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:539:m1:1
# text = confirm
1	confirm	confirm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

## Meaning (BDB 1906) {#m2}

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vb. confirm, support

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:539:m2:1
# text = vb. confirm, support
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
3	confirm	confirm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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faithful; they believed; let it be established

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:539:m3:1
# text = faithful; they believed; let it be established
1	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **establish** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP» |

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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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