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

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**Who acts:** you, vb · **What happens:** purify, make, clear up, explain

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«ברר‎» 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: [ברר‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/952.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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purify

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:952:m1:1
# text = purify
1	purify	purify	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 | **purify** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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. make clear, clear up, explain

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:952:m2:1
# text = vb. make clear, clear up, explain
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | infinitive | vb |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **clear up** | infinitive | vb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | infinitive | vb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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make clear

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:952:m3:1
# text = make clear
1	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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