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title: מָהַר — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «מָהַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: acquire by paying purchase-price. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# מָהַר

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**Who acts:** you, they · **What happens:** acquire, pay · **To what, where:** purchase price, vb, bride price

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«מָהַר‎» 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: [מָהַר‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4117.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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acquire by paying purchase-price

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4117:m1:1
# text = acquire by paying purchase-price
1	acquire	acquire	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	purchase	purchase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **acquire** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **pay** | gerund | you *not said here* | purchase price |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset |

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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. acquire by paying purchase-price

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4117:m2:1
# text = vb. denom. acquire by paying purchase-price
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	acquire	acquire	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	purchase	purchase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **acquire** | imperative | you *not said here* | vb and denom |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **pay** | gerund | you *not said here* | purchase price |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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certainly pay the bride-price; he; they have acquired

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4117:m3:1
# text = certainly pay the bride-price; he; they have acquired
1	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	pay	pay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	acquired	acquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | imperative | you *not said here* | the bride price |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset |
| 2 | **acquire** | present · perfect | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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