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title: שָׁבַר — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «שָׁבַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: buy grain. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# שָׁבַר

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**Who acts:** you, vb.denom, buy · **What happens:** buy, sell · **To what, where:** grain, one

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«שָׁבַר‎» 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: [שָׁבַר‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7666.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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buy grain

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7666:m1:1
# text = buy grain
1	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | imperative | you *not said here* | grain |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=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.denom. buy grain Hiph.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7666:m2:1
# text = vb.denom. buy grain Hiph.
1	vb.denom	vb.denom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	Hiph	Hiph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | infinitive | vb.denom | grain |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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buy; buy grain; one who sold grain

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7666:m3:1
# text = buy; buy grain; one who sold grain
1	buy	buy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | infinitive | buy | grain |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme |
| 2 | **sell** | past |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=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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