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

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**Who acts:** vb confine, he, they · **What happens:** bind, besiege, lay · **To what, where:** siege

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«צוּר‎» 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: [צוּר‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6696.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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confine

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6696:m1:1
# text = confine
1	confine	confine	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. confine, bind, besiege

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6696:m2:1
# text = vb. confine, bind, besiege
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	confine	confine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	bind	bind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	besiege	besiege	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bind** | infinitive | vb confine |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **besiege** | infinitive | vb confine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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he laid siege; they laid siege; were laying siege

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6696:m3:1
# text = he laid siege; they laid siege; were laying siege
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | he | siege |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent siege=Result |
| 2 | **lay** | past | they | siege |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent siege=Result |
| 3 | **lay** | past · progressive | he *not said here* | siege |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent siege=Result |

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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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