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

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** bend · **To what, where:** knee

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«אַבְרֵךְ‎» in the Tanakh 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: [אַבְרֵךְ‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/86.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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kneel

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:86:m1:1
# text = kneel
1	kneel	kneel	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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bend the knee

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:86:m2:1
# text = bend the knee
1	bend	bend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | imperative | you *not said here* | the knee |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent knee=Material |

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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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