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

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**What happens:** swallow, devour · **To what, where:** swallowing thing

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«בֶלַע‎» 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: [בֶלַע‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1105.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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swallowing

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1105:m1:1
# text = swallowing
1	swallowing	swallow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: 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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swallowing, devouring, thing swallowed

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1105:m2:1
# text = swallowing, devouring, thing swallowed
1	swallowing	swallow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	devouring	devour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **devour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **swallow** | participle |  | swallowing thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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thing

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1105:m3:1
# text = thing
1	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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