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

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**Who acts:** you, vb, it, he · **What happens:** be, let, make · **To what, where:** it

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«רָכַךְ‎» 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: [רָכַךְ‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7401.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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be tender

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7401:m1:1
# text = be tender
1	be	be	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tender *property* | 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. be tender, weak, soft Qal

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7401:m2:1
# text = vb. be tender, weak, soft Qal
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Qal	Qal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | vb |  |  |  |  | soft Qal *obl*; tender *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | vb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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it was soft; let it be timid; he has made timid

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7401:m3:1
# text = it was soft; let it be timid; he has made timid
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	timid	timid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
13	timid	timid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | soft *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | timid *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present · perfect | he |  |  |  |  | timid *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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