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

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**Who acts:** you, they · **What happens:** be, perish

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«דָּמַם‎» 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: [דָּמַם‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1826.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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be dumb

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1826:m1:1
# text = be dumb
1	be	be	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dumb *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP 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. be or grow dumb, silent, still

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1826:m2:1
# text = vb. be or grow dumb, silent, still
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | still | vb *vocative*; dumb, grow *property* | tree rules |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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be still; be silent; they will perish

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1826:m3:1
# text = be still; be silent; they will perish
1	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **perish** | future | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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