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

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** vex, provoke · **To what, where:** vb, anger

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«כָּעַס‎» 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: [כָּעַס‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3707.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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be vexed

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3707:m1:1
# text = be vexed
1	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	vexed	vex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vex** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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 vexed, angry

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3707:m2:1
# text = vb. be vexed, angry
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	vexed	vex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vex** | infinitive · passive |  | vb |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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provoke; to; provoke to anger

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3707:m3:1
# text = provoke; to; provoke to anger
1	provoke	provoke	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	provoke	provoke	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provoke** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **provoke** | infinitive | you *not said here* | anger |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anger=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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