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

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**What happens:** watch, be · **To what, where:** vigil, vigils

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«שִׁמֻּרִים‎» 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: [שִׁמֻּרִים‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8107.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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watching

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8107:m1:1
# text = watching
1	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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watching, vigil

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8107:m2:1
# text = watching, vigil
1	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	vigil	vigil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund |  | vigil |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vigil=Theme |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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will be vigils; of vigils

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8107:m3:1
# text = will be vigils; of vigils
1	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	vigils	vigil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	vigils	vigil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | future |  | vigils |  |  |  | of vigils | 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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