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title: נָאַם — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «נָאַם» in the Tanakh dictionary: utter a prophecy. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# נָאַם

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**Who acts:** you, denom utter prophecy, they · **What happens:** utter, speak · **To what, where:** prophecy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«נָאַם‎» 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: [נָאַם‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5001.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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utter a prophecy

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5001:m1:1
# text = utter a prophecy
1	utter	utter	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utter** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | a prophecy |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prophecy=Topic |

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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. denom. utter prophecy, speak as prophet

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5001:m2:1
# text = vb. denom. utter prophecy, speak as prophet
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	denom	denom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	utter	utter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | denom utter prophecy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as prophet | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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they have uttered

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5001:m3:1
# text = they have uttered
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utter** *speech: other* | present · perfect | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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