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

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**Who acts:** you, Hithpôʿ · **What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** guard, threshold

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«סָפַף‎» 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: [סָפַף‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5605.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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stand at

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5605:m1:1
# text = stand at
1	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | 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. denom. Hithpôʿ stand at guard, the threshold

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*Sentence 1:* vb. denom.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5605:m2:1
# text = vb. denom.
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
3	denom	denom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* Hithpôʿ stand at guard, the threshold

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5605:m2:2
# text = Hithpôʿ stand at guard, the threshold
1	Hithpôʿ	Hithpôʿ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | Hithpôʿ |  |  | guard and the threshold |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at guard=Location |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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to stand at the threshold

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5605:m3:1
# text = to stand at the threshold
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the threshold |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at threshold=Location |

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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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