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title: רָבָה — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
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# רָבָה

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** be, increase, multiply · **To what, where:** increase

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«רָבָה‎» 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: [רָבָה‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7235.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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be much

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7235:m1:1
# text = be much
1	be	be	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	much	much	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7235:m2:1
# text = vb.
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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I will increase; multiply; increase

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7235:m3:1
# text = I will increase; multiply; increase
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **increase** | future | I | increase |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **multiply** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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