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

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**Who acts:** you, they, he · **What happens:** let, stumble · **To what, where:** drop, vb

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«שָׁמַט‎» 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: [שָׁמַט‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8058.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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let drop

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8058:m1:1
# text = let drop
1	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | drop |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=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. let drop Qal

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8058:m2:1
# text = vb. let drop Qal
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	Qal	Qal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | vb |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent drop=Recipient qal=Theme |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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they had stumbled; he will let drop; let

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8058:m3:1
# text = they had stumbled; he will let drop; let
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stumbled	stumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stumble** | past · perfect | they |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | future | he | drop |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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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