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

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**Who acts:** you, it, I · **What happens:** be, show · **To what, where:** vb bitter Hiph, bitterness

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«מָרַר‎» 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: [מָרַר‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4843.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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be bitter

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4843:m1:1
# text = be bitter
1	be	be	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	bitter	bitter	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* |  |  |  |  | bitter *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.

## Meaning (BDB 1906) {#m2}

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vb. be bitter Hiph.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4843:m2:1
# text = vb. be bitter Hiph.
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Hiph	Hiph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | imperative | you *not said here* | vb bitter Hiph |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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it is bitter; it was bitter; I will show bitterness

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4843:m3:1
# text = it is bitter; it was bitter; I will show bitterness
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
12	bitterness	bitterness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | bitter *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | bitter *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | future | I | bitterness |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bitterness=Recipient |

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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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