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

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**Who acts:** practise, he · **What happens:** soothsaie, practice · **To what, where:** soothsayers

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«עָנַן‎» 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: [עָנַן‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6049.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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practise soothsaying

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6049:m1:1
# text = practise soothsaying
1	practise	practise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	soothsaying	soothsaying	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. Pōʿ. practise soothsaying

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*Sentence 1:* vb.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6049:m2:1
# text = vb.
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* Pōʿ. practise soothsaying

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6049:m2:2
# text = Pōʿ. practise soothsaying
1	Pōʿ	Pōʿ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	practise	practise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	soothsaying	soothsaie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soothsaie** | gerund | practise *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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soothsayers; he practiced soothsaying; a soothsayer

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6049:m3:1
# text = soothsayers; he practiced soothsaying; a soothsayer
1	soothsayers	soothsayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	practiced	practice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	soothsaying	soothsaie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	soothsayer	soothsayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practice** | past | he | soothsayers and a soothsayer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **soothsaie** | gerund | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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