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

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**Who acts:** you, vb, they, many · **What happens:** be, become · **To what, where:** many

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«רָבַב‎» 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: [רָבַב‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7231.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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be many

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7231:m1:1
# text = be many
1	be	be	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | imperative | you *not said here* | many |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot many=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. be or become, many, much denom.\*

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*Sentence 1:* vb. be or become, many, much denom.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7231:m2:1
# text = vb. be or become, many, much denom.
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	denom	denom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | vb and many much denom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | become *property* | tree rules |

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*Sentence 2:* \*

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7231:m2:2
# text = *
1	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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they are many; they will be many; become numerous

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7231:m3:1
# text = they are many; they will be many; become numerous
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | they |  |  |  |  | many *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | future | they |  |  |  |  | many *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | infinitive | many |  |  |  |  | numerous *property* | 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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