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

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**Who acts:** vb sink, it, I, settle · **What happens:** sink down, sink, make, die out · **To what, where:** Qal, settle

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«שָׁקַע‎» 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: [שָׁקַע‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8257.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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sink

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8257:m1:1
# text = sink
1	sink	sink	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. sink, sink down Qal

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8257:m2:1
# text = vb. sink, sink down Qal
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sink	sink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	Qal	Qal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink down** | infinitive | vb sink | Qal |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent qal=Patient |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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it will sink; I will make settle; it died out

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8257:m3:1
# text = it will sink; I will make settle; it died out
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	settle	settle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | future | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | future | I | settle |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent settle=Product |
| 3 | **die out** | past | settle |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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