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

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**Who acts:** n.f · **What happens:** whisper · **To what, where:** defamation, bad report

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«דִּבָּה‎» 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: [דִּבָּה‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1681.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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whispering

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1681:m1:1
# text = whispering
1	whispering	whisper	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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n.f. whispering, defamation, evil report

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1681:m2:1
# text = n.f. whispering, defamation, evil report
1	n.f	n.f	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	whispering	whisper	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	defamation	defamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund | n.f | defamation and evil report |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defamation=Topic |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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the whispering; a bad report; of the bad report

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1681:m3:1
# text = the whispering; a bad report; of the bad report
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whispering	whispering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** |  |  | the bad report |  |  |  |  | nom whispering «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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