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

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**Who acts:** you, vb bald shave, he · **What happens:** be, shave off, shave · **To what, where:** vb bald shave, he

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«גָּלַח‎» 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: [גָּלַח‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1548.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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be bald

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1548:m1:1
# text = be bald
1	be	be	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	bald	bald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bald *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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. be bald shave, shave off

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1548:m2:1
# text = vb. be bald shave, shave off
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	bald	bald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shave	shave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	shave	shave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive |  | vb bald shave |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shave off** | infinitive | vb bald shave |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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he will shave; he; he shaved

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1548:m3:1
# text = he will shave; he; he shaved
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	shave	shave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	shaved	shave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shave** | future | he | he |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shave** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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