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

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**Who acts:** you, vb.Pi, he, it · **What happens:** make

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«עָוַר‎» 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: [עָוַר‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5786.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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make blind

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5786:m1:1
# text = make blind
1	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | blind *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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.Pi. make blind, blind

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5786:m2:1
# text = vb.Pi. make blind, blind
1	vb.Pi	vb.Pi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | infinitive | vb.Pi |  |  |  |  | blind *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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he made blind; it makes blind

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5786:m3:1
# text = he made blind; it makes blind
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | he |  |  |  |  | blind *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present | it |  |  |  |  | blind *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material |

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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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