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

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**Who acts:** it, you · **What happens:** growl, groan, roar

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«נָהַם‎» 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: [נָהַם‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5098.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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growl

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5098:m1:1
# text = growl
1	growl	growl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Meaning (BDB 1906) {#m2}

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vb. growl, groan

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5098:m2:1
# text = vb. growl, groan
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	growl	growl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	groan	groan	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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it will growl; you will groan; roaring

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5098:m3:1
# text = it will growl; you will groan; roaring
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	growl	growl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	groan	groan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **growl** | future | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **groan** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **roar** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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