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# דָּבֵק

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**Who acts:** touching · **What happens:** cling, cleave, touch

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«דָּבֵק‎» 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: [דָּבֵק‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1695.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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clinging

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1695:m1:1
# text = clinging
1	clinging	cling	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 | **cling** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: 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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adj. clinging, cleaving

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1695:m2:1
# text = adj. clinging, cleaving
1	adj	adj	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	clinging	cling	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	cleaving	cleave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cling** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cleave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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was touching; clinging; were clinging

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1695:m3:1
# text = was touching; clinging; were clinging
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	clinging	cling	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	clinging	cling	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 | **touch** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cling** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cling** | past · progressive | touching |  |  |  |  |  | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: 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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