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Lexical senses and semantic domains
Sense 1: beginning
= point in time at which an event starts happening
Semantic domains for this sense Begin Same Semantic Domain Advanced source details
Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-006621-01Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 17 (17 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 2: best
= state in which an object is of a relatively high quality
Semantic domains for this sense Good Same Semantic Domain Advanced source details
Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-006621-02Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 7 (7 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 3: chief, greatest
= state in which a group has a relatively high status
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-006621-03Source 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 4: main part, chief part
= the largest among two or more parts of one group
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-006621-04Source 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 5: mainstay
literally: best of power; hence: = something that constitutes the chief support of a nation's military strength
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-006621-05Source 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: first
= state in which a countable entity is the first or the previous in a range
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-006621-06Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 23 (23 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-006621Page model version 1.0 Direction rtl Domain policy Sense-specific only; no lemma-level union
