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

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**Who acts:** it, I · **What happens:** avenge, take · **To what, where:** vengeance, he, itself

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«נָקַם‎» 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: [נָקַם‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5358.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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avenge

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5358:m1:1
# text = avenge
1	avenge	avenge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avenge** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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. avenge, take vengeance

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5358:m2:1
# text = vb. avenge, take vengeance
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	avenge	avenge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avenge** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive |  | vengeance |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vengeance=Theme |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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he will be avenged; will it avenge itself; I will avenge

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5358:m3:1
# text = he will be avenged; will it avenge itself; I will avenge
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	avenged	avenge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avenge** | future · passive |  | he |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **avenge** | future | it | itself *= it* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **avenge** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | 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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