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

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**Who acts:** you, vb, they · **What happens:** stop up, shut up, keep

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«סָתַם‎» 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: [סָתַם‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5640.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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stop up

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5640:m1:1
# text = stop up
1	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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. stop up, shut up, keep close

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5640:m2:1
# text = vb. stop up, shut up, keep close
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop up** | infinitive | vb |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shut up** | participle | vb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | vb *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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keep secret; they; they stopped up

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5640:m3:1
# text = keep secret; they; they stopped up
1	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | infinitive | they |  |  |  |  | secret *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stop up** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: 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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