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

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**Who acts:** you, vb · **What happens:** swallow

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«לָהַם‎» 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: [לָהַם‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3859.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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swallow greedily

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3859:m1:1
# text = swallow greedily
1	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	greedily	greedily	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | greedily *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP 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. swallow greedily

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3859:m2:1
# text = vb. swallow greedily
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	greedily	greedily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | infinitive | vb |  |  |  |  | greedily *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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delicacies

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3859:m3:1
# text = delicacies
1	delicacies	delicacy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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