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

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**Who acts:** you, woman, child · **What happens:** give, bear, be · **To what, where:** birthright, first child, first fruits

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«בָּכַר‎» 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: [בָּכַר‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1069.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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give the birthright

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1069:m1:1
# text = give the birthright
1	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	birthright	birthright	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* | the birthright |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthright=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.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1069:m2:1
# text = vb.
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	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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a woman bearing a first child; it will be belong as a firstling; it will bear first-fruits

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1069:m3:1
# text = a woman bearing a first child; it will be belong as a firstling; it will bear first-fruits
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	belong	belong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	firstling	firstling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **bear** | gerund | a woman *not said here* | a first child |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | future | a woman |  |  |  |  | as a firstling; belong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | future | child | first fruits |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |

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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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