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title: בֶּצַע — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «בֶּצַע» in the Tanakh dictionary: gain made by violence. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# בֶּצַע

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**Who acts:** violence, unjust gain · **What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** n.m, profit

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«בֶּצַע‎» 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: [בֶּצַע‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1215.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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gain made by violence

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1215:m1:1
# text = gain made by violence
1	gain	gain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive | violence |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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.m. gain made by violence, unjust gain, profit

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1215:m2:1
# text = n.m. gain made by violence, unjust gain, profit
1	n.m	n.m	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	gain	gain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	unjust	unjust	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	gain	gain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive | violence and profit | n.m |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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unjust gain; gain; is the profit

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1215:m3:1
# text = unjust gain; gain; is the profit
1	unjust	unjust	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gain	gain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	gain	gain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | unjust gain | the profit |  |  |  |  | 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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