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

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**Who acts:** subst · **What happens:** wear out · **To what, where:** adv

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«בְּלִי‎» 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: [בְּלִי‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1097.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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wearing out

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1097:m1:1
# text = wearing out
1	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear out** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |

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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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subst. wearing out adv. of negation β γ

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1097:m2:1
# text = subst. wearing out adv. of negation β γ
1	subst	subst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	adv	adv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	negation	negation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	β	β	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	γ	γ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear out** | gerund | subst of β γ *not said here* | adv |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent adv=Source |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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not; of not; which not

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1097:m3:1
# text = not; of not; which not
1	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
```

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

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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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