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

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**Who acts:** you, one · **What happens:** use, slander · **To what, where:** tongue, vb, slander

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«לָשַׁן‎» 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: [לָשַׁן‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3960.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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use the tongue

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3960:m1:1
# text = use the tongue
1	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | the tongue |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient |

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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. denom. use the tongue slander Poʿel

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3960:m2:1
# text = vb. denom. use the tongue slander Poʿel
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	denom	denom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	slander	slander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	Poʿel	Poʿel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | vb and denom |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slander=Patient |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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one who slanders; slander

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3960:m3:1
# text = one who slanders; slander
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	slanders	slander	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	slander	slander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slander** | present | one | slander |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slander=Theme |

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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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