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

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**Who acts:** vb · **What happens:** cover, panel, reserve · **To what, where:** panel, it

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«סָפַן‎» 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: [סָפַן‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5603.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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cover

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5603:m1:1
# text = cover
1	cover	cover	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. cover, cover in, panel

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5603:m2:1
# text = vb. cover, cover in, panel
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	panel	panel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | infinitive | vb | panel |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** | infinitive | vb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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it was paneled; paneled; was reserved

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5603:m3:1
# text = it was paneled; paneled; was reserved
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	paneled	panel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	paneled	panel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	reserved	reserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **panel** | past · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **panel** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reserve** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |

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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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