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Lexical senses and semantic domains
Sense 1: to swallow, to swallow up
= action by which humans or animals cause food to pass down from their mouth to their esophagus; ≈ often used figuratively to denote destruction and death
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-001023-01Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 25 (25 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 2: to swallow up, to destroy
= causative action by which deities or humans cause other humans and objects to be removed from existence in a violent way, as if by swallowing up, either by direct intervention or by accomplishing this through the hands of others
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-001023-02Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 20 (20 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 3: to be to no avail
exact meaning unsure; possibly: = state in which a mind event does not produce the expected outcome, as if one's senses have been destroyed
Semantic domains for this sense Fail Same Semantic Domain Advanced source details
Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-001023-03Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 1 (1 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 4: to confuse, to confound, to frustrate
exact meaning unsure; possibly: = causative action by which someone causes a mind event not to produce the expected outcome
Semantic domains for this sense Fail Same Semantic Domain Advanced source details
Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-001023-04Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 3 (3 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 5: to be confused
exact meaning unsure; possibly: = to be unable to think clearly, as if one's mind is failing
Semantic domains for this sense
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-001023-05Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 3 (3 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON Use these links to inspect lexical identity and occurrences. Domain membership identifies related vocabulary to investigate; it does not assign a passage meaning.
Related words and biblical concepts Reviewed concept, LXX, and theological relationships are not included in this MVP. No candidate relationship is presented as established fact.
Advanced record identity Lemma ID SDBC-HEB-LEMMA-001023Page model version 1.0 Direction rtl Domain policy Sense-specific only; no lemma-level union
