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# intransitive

adjective

«intransitive» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: The commentator uses the word to explain a Hebrew verb, shakhav, "to lie down", whose form seems odd for such a verb.

### Meaning

An intransitive verb is one that does not take an object, such as "lie down" or "sleep". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/intransitive/#m1)

### Examples

- The first is clearly the root שָׁכַב shakhav ‘to lie, lie down’, but שכובה looks like a passive participle, shekhuvah, while shakhav is normally an intransitive verb not amenable to being made passive. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/intransitive/#x1)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «intransitive» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/intransitive/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«intransitive» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/intransitive.html) on Mova free.