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title: שָׁמַר — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
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# שָׁמַר

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** keep, watch, preserve, take · **To what, where:** Niph, heed

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«שָׁמַר‎» 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: [שָׁמַר‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8104.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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keep

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8104:m1:1
# text = keep
1	keep	keep	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 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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. keep, watch, preserve Niph.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8104:m2:1
# text = vb. keep, watch, preserve Niph.
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	Niph	Niph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	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 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vb *vocative* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **watch** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **preserve** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | Niph |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent niph=Beneficiary |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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keep; you will keep; take heed

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8104:m3:1
# text = keep; you will keep; take heed
1	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | heed |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=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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