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title: מְחִי — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «מְחִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: the stroke of his battering ram. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# מְחִי

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**What happens:** batter, stroke · **To what, where:** battering ram

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«מְחִי‎» in the Tanakh dictionary: its 2 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: [מְחִי‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4239.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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the stroke of his battering ram

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4239:m1:1
# text = the stroke of his battering ram
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	battering	batter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **batter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stroke** |  |  | his battering ram |  |  |  |  | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=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.

## MACULA's glosses {#m2}

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the blow

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4239:m2:1
# text = the blow
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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