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title: עָרַב — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «עָרַב» in the Tanakh dictionary: become evening. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# עָרַב

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**Who acts:** you, vb, it · **What happens:** become, grow, do · **To what, where:** evening

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«עָרַב‎» 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: [עָרַב‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6150.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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become evening

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6150:m1:1
# text = become evening
1	become	become	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | imperative | you *not said here* | evening |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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. become evening; grow dark

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6150:m2:1
# text = vb. denom. become evening; grow dark
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	denom	denom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
5	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	grow	grow	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | infinitive | vb and denom | evening |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | infinitive | vb and denom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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become evening; doing in the evening; it has become evening

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6150:m3:1
# text = become evening; doing in the evening; it has become evening
1	become	become	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
12	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | imperative | you *not said here* | evening |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  | evening |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **become** | present · perfect | it | evening |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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