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Lexical senses and semantic domains
Sense 1: branch
= branch of a tree
Semantic domains for this sense Trees Same Semantic Domain Advanced source details
Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-003902-01Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 4 (4 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 2: staff, rod, stick
= stick ◄ usually made of wood; ► used for walking or as attribute of a ruler; also used for threshing; ≈ associated with authority and punishment
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-003902-02Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 51 (51 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 3: supply of bread, supply of food
literally: wooden stick, used for transporting ring-shaped loaves of bread; hence: = supply of bread and other food items
Semantic domains for this sense Food Same Semantic Domain Advanced source details
Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-003902-03Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 5 (5 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 4: arrow
= pointed missile, shot from a bow; slender and straight in shape and moving swiftly; ◄ made out of wood and/or iron; ► mainly used for hunting and in warfare
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-003902-04Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 2 (2 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 5: staff > people
= nation that oppresses other people
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-003902-05Source 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 6: scepter > ruler
literally: staff; hence: = a person with the authority represented by a scepter
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-003902-06Source 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 7: stick > punishment, oppression
literally: stick; hence: = process of causing systematic suffering to someone else ◄ as if one were beating someone else with a stick
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-003902-07Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 6 (6 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 8: tribe
= group of clans united by a common leader
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-003902-08Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 175 (175 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 9: ancestral tribe
= group of people to which one traces one's ancestry; ◄ largest unit within family group
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-003902-09Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 9 (9 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-003902Page model version 1.0 Direction rtl Domain policy Sense-specific only; no lemma-level union
