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title: עָרֵל — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «עָרֵל» in the Tanakh dictionary: having foreskin. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# עָרֵל

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**Who acts:** adj · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** foreskin

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«עָרֵל‎» in the Tanakh dictionary: its 2 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: [עָרֵל‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6189.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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having foreskin

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6189:m1:1
# text = having foreskin
1	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	foreskin	foreskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  | foreskin |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foreskin=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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adj. having foreskin

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6189:m2:1
# text = adj. having foreskin
1	adj	adj	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	foreskin	foreskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | adj *not said here* | foreskin |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foreskin=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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