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

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**Who acts:** he · **What happens:** despair, desist, make · **To what, where:** despair

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«יָאַשׁ‎» 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: [יָאַשׁ‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2976.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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despair

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2976:m1:1
# text = despair
1	despair	despair	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. despair Qal

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2976:m2:1
# text = vb. despair Qal
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Qal	Qal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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despairing; he will desist; make despair

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2976:m3:1
# text = despairing; he will desist; make despair
1	despairing	despair	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	desist	desist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **despair** | gerund | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **desist** | future | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | he *not said here* | despair |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset despair=Product |

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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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