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title: נָאַץ — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
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# נָאַץ

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**Who acts:** you, vb, they, he · **What happens:** contemn, spurn · **To what, where:** Hithpoʿel

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«נָאַץ‎» 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: [נָאַץ‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5006.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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contemn

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5006:m1:1
# text = contemn
1	contemn	contemn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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. contemn, spurn Hithpoʿel

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5006:m2:1
# text = vb. contemn, spurn Hithpoʿel
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	contemn	contemn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	spurn	spurn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	Hithpoʿel	Hithpoʿel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contemn** | infinitive | vb |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spurn** | infinitive | vb *not said here* | Hithpoʿel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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those; they have spurned; he spurns

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5006:m3:1
# text = those; they have spurned; he spurns
1	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	spurned	spurn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	spurns	spurn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spurn** | present · perfect | they |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spurn** | present | he |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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