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

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**Who acts:** you, it · **What happens:** overflow, rinse, wash off · **To what, where:** Niph, they

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«שָׁטַף‎» 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: [שָׁטַף‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7857.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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overflow

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7857:m1:1
# text = overflow
1	overflow	overflow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overflow** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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. overflow, rinse wash off Niph.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7857:m2:1
# text = vb. overflow, rinse wash off Niph.
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	overflow	overflow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	rinse	rinse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	Niph	Niph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overflow** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rinse** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wash off** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Niph |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent niph=Patient |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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overflowing; it will overflow; they

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7857:m3:1
# text = overflowing; it will overflow; they
1	overflowing	overflow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	overflow	overflow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overflow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **overflow** | future | it | they |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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