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

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** slay, slaughter · **To what, where:** slaughter

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«טָבַח‎» 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: [טָבַח‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2873.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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slaughter

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2873:m1:1
# text = slaughter
1	slaughter	slaughter	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. slaughter, butcher, slay

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2873:m2:1
# text = vb. slaughter, butcher, slay
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	butcher	butcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	slay	slay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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slaughter; slaughtering; I have slaughtered

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2873:m3:1
# text = slaughter; slaughtering; I have slaughtered
1	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	slaughtering	slaughter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slaughter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **slaughter** | present · perfect | I | slaughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slaughter=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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