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

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** move, glide, glide over, flow

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«דָּבַב‎» 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: [דָּבַב‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1680.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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move gently

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1680:m1:1
# text = move gently
1	move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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. move gently, glide, glide over

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1680:m2:1
# text = vb. move gently, glide, glide over
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	glide	glide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	glide	glide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **glide** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **glide over** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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which flows gently

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1680:m3:1
# text = which flows gently
1	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | present |  |  |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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