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title: כָּהַן — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «כָּהַן» in the Tanakh dictionary: act as priest. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# כָּהַן

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**Who acts:** serve · **What happens:** serve

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«כָּהַן‎» 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: [כָּהַן‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3547.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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act as priest

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3547:m1:1
# text = act as priest
1	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

## Meaning (BDB 1906) {#m2}

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vb. Pi.denom. act as priest

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*Sentence 1:* vb.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3547:m2:1
# text = vb.
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* Pi.denom. act as priest

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3547:m2:2
# text = Pi.denom. act as priest
1	Pi.denom	pi.denom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
3	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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serve as priests; to; he served as priest

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3547:m3:1
# text = serve as priests; to; he served as priest
1	serve	serve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | past | serve as priests |  |  |  |  | as priest | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as priest=Attribute |

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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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