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

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**Who acts:** you, Pi, he · **What happens:** stir up, engage · **To what, where:** Hithp, strife

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«גָּרָה‎» 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: [גָּרָה‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1624.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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stir up

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1624:m1:1
# text = stir up
1	stir	stir	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stir up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition |

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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. Pi. stir up Hithp. engage in strife

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*Sentence 1:* vb.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1624:m2:1
# text = vb.
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* Pi. stir up Hithp. engage in strife

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1624:m2:2
# text = Pi. stir up Hithp. engage in strife
1	Pi	pi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	Hithp	Hithp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
7	engage	engage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stir up** | infinitive | Pi | Hithp |  |  |  | engage in strife *obl* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition hithp=Patient |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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engage in strife; he stirs up; will you engage in strife

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1624:m3:1
# text = engage in strife; he stirs up; will you engage in strife
1	engage	engage	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stirs	stir	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	engage	engage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **engage** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in strife *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in strife=Goal |
| 2 | **stir up** | present | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **engage** | future | you |  |  |  |  | in strife *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in strife=Goal |

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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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