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

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be

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«מֵרַע‎» 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: [מֵרַע‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4827.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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be evil

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4827:m1:1
# text = be evil
1	be	be	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | evil *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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be to evil

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4827:m2:1
# text = be to evil
1	be	be	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to evil | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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