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

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**Who acts:** he, they · **What happens:** cut, slaughter · **To what, where:** throat

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«שָׁחַט‎» 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: [שָׁחַט‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7819.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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slaughter

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7819:m1:1
# text = slaughter
1	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Meaning (BDB 1906) {#m2}

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vb.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7819: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.

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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he will cut the throat of; they slaughtered; he

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7819:m3:1
# text = he will cut the throat of; they slaughtered; he
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | future | he | the throat |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throat=Product |
| 2 | **slaughter** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «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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