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

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**Who acts:** you, they · **What happens:** shear, trim · **To what, where:** trim

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«כָּסַם‎» 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: [כָּסַם‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3697.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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shear

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3697:m1:1
# text = shear
1	shear	shear	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 | **shear** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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. shear, clip

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3697:m2:1
# text = vb. shear, clip
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
3	shear	shear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	clip	clip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shear** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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surely trim; they will trim

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3697:m3:1
# text = surely trim; they will trim
1	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	trim	trim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	trim	trim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trim** | future | they | trim *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trim=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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