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

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**Who acts:** you, he · **What happens:** seek · **To what, where:** those

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«בָּקַשׁ‎» 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: [בָּקַשׁ‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1245.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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seek

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1245:m1:1
# text = seek
1	seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «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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vb. seek

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1245:m2:1
# text = vb. seek
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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seek; he sought; those who seek

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1245:m3:1
# text = seek; he sought; those who seek
1	seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	1	obl	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	seek	seek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | imperative | you *not said here* | those |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seek** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seek** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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