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

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**What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** news

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«בָּשַׂר‎» 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: [בָּשַׂר‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1319.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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bear tidings

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1319:m1:1
# text = bear tidings
1	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

## Meaning (BDB 1906) {#m2}

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vb. bear tidings

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1319:m2:1
# text = vb. bear tidings
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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bear news; O bearer of news; bear the news

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1319:m3:1
# text = bear news; O bearer of news; bear the news
1	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	5	case	_	_
5	bearer	bearer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bear	bear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | infinitive |  | the news |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=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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