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title: מָחַץ — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «מָחַץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: smite through. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# מָחַץ

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**Who acts:** you, vb, he, I · **What happens:** smite, wound, smash · **To what, where:** shatter, I

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«מָחַץ‎» 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: [מָחַץ‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4272.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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smite through

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4272:m1:1
# text = smite through
1	smite	smite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	through	through	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

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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. smite through, wound severely, shatter

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4272:m2:1
# text = vb. smite through, wound severely, shatter
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	wound	wound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	shatter	shatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** | infinitive | vb | shatter |  |  |  | through *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wound** | infinitive | vb *not said here* |  |  |  |  | severely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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he smashes; I; I wound

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4272:m3:1
# text = he smashes; I; I wound
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	smashes	smash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wound	wound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smash** | present | he | I |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **wound** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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