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

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**Who acts:** you, vb · **What happens:** subdue, bring, force · **To what, where:** bondage, it, slavery

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«כָּבַשׁ‎» 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: [כָּבַשׁ‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3533.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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subdue

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3533:m1:1
# text = subdue
1	subdue	subdue	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **subdue** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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. subdue, bring into bondage Qal Qal Qal

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3533:m2:1
# text = vb. subdue, bring into bondage Qal Qal Qal
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	subdue	subdue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bondage	bondage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	Qal	Qal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	Qal	Qal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	Qal	Qal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **subdue** | infinitive | vb |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive | vb *not said here* |  |  | bondage |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into bondage=Destination |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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it will be subdued; are being forced into slavery; are forcing into slavery

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3533:m3:1
# text = it will be subdued; are being forced into slavery; are forcing into slavery
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	subdued	subdue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	forcing	force	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **subdue** | future · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **force** | present · passive |  |  |  | slavery |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **force** | present · progressive |  |  |  | slavery |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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