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

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**Who acts:** you, vb, he · **What happens:** follow, assail, circumvent, overreach, betray, take · **To what, where:** heel

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«עָקַב‎» 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: [עָקַב‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6117.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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follow at the heel

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6117:m1:1
# text = follow at the heel
1	follow	follow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	heel	heel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the heel |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at heel=Location |

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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. follow at the heel assail insidiously, circumvent, overreach

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6117:m2:1
# text = vb. follow at the heel assail insidiously, circumvent, overreach
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	heel	heel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	assail	assail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	insidiously	insidiously	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	circumvent	circumvent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	overreach	overreach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | infinitive | vb |  |  | the heel |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at heel=Location |
| 2 | **assail** | infinitive | vb *not said here* |  |  |  |  | insidiously *property* | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **circumvent** | infinitive | vb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **overreach** | infinitive | vb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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he; he betrays; he took by the heel

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6117:m3:1
# text = he; he betrays; he took by the heel
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	betrays	betray	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	heel	heel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **betray** | present | he |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | he |  |  |  |  | by the heel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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