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

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**What happens:** appoint

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«זְמָן‎» 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: [זְמָן‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2165.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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appointed time

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2165:m1:1
# text = appointed time
1	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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.m. appointed time, time

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2165:m2:1
# text = n.m. appointed time, time
1	n.m	n.m	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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an appointed time; their appointed; to

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2165:m3:1
# text = an appointed time; their appointed; to
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **appoint** | participle |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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