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title: קְבֹל — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «קְבֹל» in the Tanakh dictionary: battering-ram. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# קְבֹל

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**What happens:** batter · **To what, where:** ram

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«קְבֹל‎» 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: [קְבֹל‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6904.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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battering-ram

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6904:m1:1
# text = battering-ram
1	battering	batter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **batter** | gerund |  | ram |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ram=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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something in front attacking-engine

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6904:m2:1
# text = something in front attacking-engine
1	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	attacking	attacking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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his battering-ram

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6904:m3:1
# text = his battering-ram
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	battering	battering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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