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title: שָׁבָה — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «שָׁבָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: take captive. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# שָׁבָה

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**Who acts:** you, they, captors · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** captive, captors

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«שָׁבָה‎» 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: [שָׁבָה‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7617.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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take captive

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7617:m1:1
# text = take captive
1	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | captive |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=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. take captive

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7617:m2:1
# text = vb. take captive
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | captive |  |  |  | vb *vocative* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=Theme |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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they took captive; captors; they had taken captive

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7617:m3:1
# text = they took captive; captors; they had taken captive
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	captive	captive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	captors	captor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
10	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | they | captors |  |  |  | captive *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captor=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past · perfect | captors *= captor* | captive |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=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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