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

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** seek, have, take · **To what, where:** refuge, taken refuge

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«חָסָה‎» 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: [חָסָה‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2620.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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seek refuge

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2620:m1:1
# text = seek refuge
1	seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | imperative | you *not said here* | refuge |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refuge=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. seek refuge

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2620:m2:1
# text = vb. seek refuge
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | imperative | you *not said here* | refuge |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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I have taken refuge; I take refuge; who take refuge

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2620:m3:1
# text = I have taken refuge; I take refuge; who take refuge
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | taken refuge |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refuge=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | present | I | refuge |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | present |  | refuge |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme |

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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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