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

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**Who acts:** vb desire, you · **What happens:** take, covet, desire · **To what, where:** pleasure

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«חָמַד‎» 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: [חָמַד‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2530.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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desire

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2530:m1:1
# text = desire
1	desire	desire	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. desire, take pleasure in i.e.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2530:m2:1
# text = vb. desire, take pleasure in i.e.
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | infinitive | vb desire | pleasure |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pleasure=Value in i.e.=Location |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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desirable; you must covet; his desired

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2530:m3:1
# text = desirable; you must covet; his desired
1	desirable	desirable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	covet	covet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **covet** | must | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **desire** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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