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title: חָתַן — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «חָתַן» in the Tanakh dictionary: make oneself a daughter’s husband. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# חָתַן

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**Who acts:** you, vb.denom, son · **What happens:** make, be, become, intermarry · **To what, where:** oneself, son, law

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«חָתַן‎» 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: [חָתַן‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2859.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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make oneself a daughter’s husband

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2859:m1:1
# text = make oneself a daughter’s husband
1	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	oneself	oneself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | oneself |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset oneself=Beneficiary husband=Product |

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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.denom. make oneself daughter’s husband

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2859:m2:1
# text = vb.denom. make oneself daughter’s husband
1	vb.denom	vb.denom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	oneself	oneself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | infinitive | vb.denom | oneself |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset oneself=Beneficiary husband=Product |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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be son-in-law; he became son-in-law; you will intermarry

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2859:m3:1
# text = be son-in-law; he became son-in-law; you will intermarry
1	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	intermarry	intermarry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive |  | son |  | law |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | son | son in law |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **intermarry** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: 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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