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

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**Who acts:** wailing · **What happens:** wail, mourn · **To what, where:** lamentation, song, mourning songs

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«נְהִי‎» 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: [נְהִי‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5092.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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wailing

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5092:m1:1
# text = wailing
1	wailing	wail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wail** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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wailing, lamentation, mourning song

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5092:m2:1
# text = wailing, lamentation, mourning song
1	wailing	wail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	mourning	mourn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
6	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wail** | gerund |  | lamentation |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lamentation=Theme |
| 2 | **mourn** | gerund |  | song |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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a wailing; wailing; of mourning songs

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5092:m3:1
# text = a wailing; wailing; of mourning songs
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wailing	wailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	wailing	wail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wail** | gerund | a wailing | mourning songs |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent song=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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