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title: רָפַק — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «רָפַק» in the Tanakh dictionary: support oneself. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# רָפַק

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**Who acts:** you, vb support oneself · **What happens:** support, lean · **To what, where:** oneself, herself

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«רָפַק‎» 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: [רָפַק‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7514.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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support oneself

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7514:m1:1
# text = support oneself
1	support	support	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	oneself	oneself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **support** | imperative | you *not said here* | oneself |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oneself=Stimulus |

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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. support oneself, lean

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7514:m2:1
# text = vb. support oneself, lean
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	support	support	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	oneself	oneself	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lean** | infinitive | vb support oneself *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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leaning herself

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7514:m3:1
# text = leaning herself
1	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lean** | gerund |  | herself *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Theme |

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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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