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

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**Who acts:** his · **What happens:** make, work · **To what, where:** work thing

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«מִפְעָל‎» 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: [מִפְעָל‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4659.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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work

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4659:m1:1
# text = work
1	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

## Meaning (BDB 1906) {#m2}

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work, thing made

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4659:m2:1
# text = work, thing made
1	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | work thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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his works

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4659:m3:1
# text = his works
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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