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

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** blow, strike, plague · **To what, where:** striking

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«נֶגֶף‎» 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: [נֶגֶף‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5063.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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blow

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5063:m1:1
# text = blow
1	blow	blow	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 | **blow** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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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n.m. blow, striking

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5063:m2:1
# text = n.m. blow, striking
1	n.m	n.m	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
3	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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a plague; plague; of striking

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5063:m3:1
# text = a plague; plague; of striking
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	striking	striking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plague** |  |  | striking |  |  |  |  | nom plague «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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