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title: עָרַץ — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «עָרַץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: cause to tremble. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# עָרַץ

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**Who acts:** you, vb cause, I · **What happens:** cause, tremble, be, terrify · **To what, where:** Qal

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«עָרַץ‎» 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: [עָרַץ‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6206.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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cause to tremble

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6206:m1:1
# text = cause to tremble
1	cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	tremble	tremble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tremble** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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. cause to tremble, tremble Qal

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6206:m2:1
# text = vb. cause to tremble, tremble Qal
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	tremble	tremble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	tremble	tremble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	Qal	Qal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tremble** | infinitive | vb cause *not said here* | Qal |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location qal=Theme |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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be terrified; terrify; I was terrified of

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6206:m3:1
# text = be terrified; terrify; I was terrified of
1	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	terrify	terrify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | terrified *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **terrify** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | terrified *property* | 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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