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

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**What happens:** sow · **To what, where:** thing, it

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«זֵרוּעַ‎» 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: [זֵרוּעַ‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2221.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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sowing

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2221:m1:1
# text = sowing
1	sowing	sow	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 | **sow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: 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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sowing, thing sown

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2221:m2:1
# text = sowing, thing sown
1	sowing	sow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	sown	sow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sow** | gerund |  | thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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of sowing; sown in it

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2221:m3:1
# text = of sowing; sown in it
1	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sowing	sow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	sown	sow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sow** | participle |  |  |  | it |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in it=Destination |

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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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