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

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**Who acts:** you, vb, he, they · **What happens:** lean, lay, rest, support, sustain

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«סָמַךְ‎» 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: [סָמַךְ‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5564.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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lean

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5564:m1:1
# text = lean
1	lean	lean	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 | **lean** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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vb. lean, lay, rest, support

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5564:m2:1
# text = vb. lean, lay, rest, support
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lean** | infinitive | vb |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lay** | infinitive | vb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rest** | infinitive | vb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **support** | infinitive | vb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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he will lean; they will lay; is sustaining

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5564:m3:1
# text = he will lean; they will lay; is sustaining
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	sustaining	sustain	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 | **lean** | future | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lay** | future | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sustain** | present · progressive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |

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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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