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

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**Who acts:** you, vb, one, people · **What happens:** despise · **To what, where:** she

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«בּוּז‎» 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: [בּוּז‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/936.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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despise

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:936:m1:1
# text = despise
1	despise	despise	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 | **despise** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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. despise

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:936:m2:1
# text = vb. despise
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	despise	despise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **despise** | infinitive | vb |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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one who despises; people will despise; she has despised

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:936:m3:1
# text = one who despises; people will despise; she has despised
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	despises	despise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	despise	despise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	despised	despise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **despise** | present | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **despise** | future | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **despise** | present · perfect · passive |  | she |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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