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title: רָבַע — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «רָבַע» in the Tanakh dictionary: lie stretched out. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# רָבַע

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**Who acts:** you, vb lie, lie · **What happens:** lie, stretch out, lie down, make · **To what, where:** vb lie, lie

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«רָבַע‎» 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: [רָבַע‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7250.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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lie stretched out

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7250:m1:1
# text = lie stretched out
1	lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stretch out** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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vb. lie stretched out, lie down

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7250:m2:1
# text = vb. lie stretched out, lie down
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch out** | participle |  | vb lie *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **lie down** | infinitive | vb lie |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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lie; lie with; you will make lie

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7250:m3:1
# text = lie; lie with; you will make lie
1	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | infinitive | lie |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | future | you | lie |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Product |

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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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