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

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**Who acts:** vb cease, it · **What happens:** cause, cease, cut off, destroy, be · **To what, where:** it

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«דָּמָה‎» 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: [דָּמָה‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1820.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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cease

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1820:m1:1
# text = cease
1	cease	cease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

## Meaning (BDB 1906) {#m2}

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vb. cease, cause to cease, cut off, destroy

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1820:m2:1
# text = vb. cease, cause to cease, cut off, destroy
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	cease	cease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | infinitive | vb cease |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cease** | to-infinitive | vb cease *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **cut off** | infinitive | vb cease *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **destroy** | infinitive | vb cease *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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it will be destroyed; it will be silent; it will cease

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1820:m3:1
# text = it will be destroyed; it will be silent; it will cease
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | future · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | future | it |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cease** | future | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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