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title: בְּכֹרָה — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «בְּכֹרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: right of first-born. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# בְּכֹרָה

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**Who acts:** birthright · **What happens:** bear, be · **To what, where:** right, n.f right, birthright

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«בְּכֹרָה‎» 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: [בְּכֹרָה‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1062.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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right of first-born

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1062:m1:1
# text = right of first-born
1	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  | right *not said here* |  |  |  | first *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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n.f. right of first-born

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1062:m2:1
# text = n.f. right of first-born
1	n.f	n.f	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  | n.f right *not said here* |  |  |  | first *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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birthright; is a birthright; the birthright

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1062:m3:1
# text = birthright; is a birthright; the birthright
1	birthright	birthright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	birthright	birthright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	birthright	birthright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | birthright | a birthright and the birthright |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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