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title: רָשַׁשׁ — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «רָשַׁשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: beat down. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# רָשַׁשׁ

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**Who acts:** you, Pōʿēl, it · **What happens:** beat down, shatter · **To what, where:** we

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«רָשַׁשׁ‎» 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: [רָשַׁשׁ‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7567.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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beat down

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7567:m1:1
# text = beat down
1	beat	beat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat down** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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. Pōʿēl beat down, shatter

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*Sentence 1:* vb.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7567: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.

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*Sentence 2:* Pōʿēl beat down, shatter

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7567:m2:2
# text = Pōʿēl beat down, shatter
1	Pōʿēl	Pōʿēl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	shatter	shatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat down** | infinitive | Pōʿēl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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it will shatter; we have been shattered

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7567:m3:1
# text = it will shatter; we have been shattered
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	shatter	shatter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	shattered	shatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **shatter** | future | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **shatter** | present · perfect · passive |  | we |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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