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

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**Who acts:** vb, he, they · **What happens:** disappoint, deceive, fail, grow, deny, cringe · **To what, where:** lean Pi

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«כָּחַשׁ‎» 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: [כָּחַשׁ‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3584.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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be disappointing

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3584:m1:1
# text = be disappointing
1	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	aux	_	_
2	disappointing	disappoint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappoint** | infinitive · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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. be disappointing, deceive, fail, grow lean Pi Hithp.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3584:m2:1
# text = vb. be disappointing, deceive, fail, grow lean Pi Hithp.
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	disappointing	disappoint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	fail	fail	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	grow	grow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Pi	Pi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	Hithp	Hithp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappoint** | infinitive · progressive | vb |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **deceive** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fail** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grow** | infinitive |  | lean Pi |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pi=Theme |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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he will deny; they cringed; they will cringe

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3584:m3:1
# text = he will deny; they cringed; they will cringe
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	deny	deny	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cringed	cringe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	cringe	cringe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deny** | future | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cringe** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **cringe** | future | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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