--- title: 1 Chronicles 16:4 — And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark o… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to celebrate and to thank and praise the LORD, the God of Israel: Who acts: David. 1 Chronicles 16:4 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.16.4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [1 Chronicles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH/) / [chapter 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH/16/) / 16:4 # 1 Chronicles 16:4 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים א **Who acts:** David · **What happens:** appoint, minister, celebrate, thank, praise · **To what, where:** certain, LORD This is 1 Chronicles 16:4 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — David — and what happens in the verse to certain, LORD, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 29 chapters of 1 Chronicles on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וַיִּתֵּ֞ן לִפְנֵ֨י אֲר֧וֹן יְהוָ֛ה מִן־הַלְוִיִּ֖ם מְשָׁרְתִ֑ים וּלְהַזְכִּיר֙ וּלְהוֹד֣וֹת וּלְהַלֵּ֔ל לַיהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃פ [And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to celebrate and to thank and praise the LORD, the God of Israel:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.625/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:1CH:572 # text = וַיִּתֵּ֞ן לִפְנֵ֨י אֲר֧וֹן יְהוָ֛ה מִן־הַלְוִיִּ֖ם מְשָׁרְתִ֑ים וּלְהַזְכִּיר֙ וּלְהוֹד֣וֹת וּלְהַלֵּ֔ל לַיהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃פ # verse = 1CH.16.4 1-2 וַיִּתֵּ֞ן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=1CH_16:4!1|MId=o130160040011|Strong=2050b 2 יִּתֵּ֞ן נָתַן VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.appointed|Ref=1CH_16:4!1|MId=o130160040012|Strong=5414|Frame=A0:130160020021;A1:130160040071;|Type=wayyiqtol 3-4 לִפְנֵ֨י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=before|Ref=1CH_16:4!2|MId=o130160040021|Strong=3807a 4 פְנֵ֨י פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 2 obl _ Gloss=|Ref=1CH_16:4!2|MId=o130160040022|Strong=6440 5 אֲר֧וֹן אֲרוֹן NOUN _ Number=Sing 4 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.ark|Ref=1CH_16:4!3|MId=o130160040031|Strong=0727 6 יְהוָ֛ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=1CH_16:4!4|MId=o130160040041|Strong=3068 7 מִן־ מִן ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=some.of|Ref=1CH_16:4!5|MId=o130160040051|Strong=4480|SpaceAfter=No 8-9 הַלְוִיִּ֖ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 9 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=1CH_16:4!6|MId=o130160040061|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 9 לְוִיִּ֖ם לֵוִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 obl _ Gloss=Levites|Ref=1CH_16:4!6|MId=o130160040062|Strong=3881|Type=gentilic 10 מְשָׁרְתִ֑ים שָׁרַת VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur 2 obj _ Gloss=servants|Ref=1CH_16:4!7|MId=o130160040071|Strong=8334|Type=participle_active 11-13 וּלְהַזְכִּיר֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 13 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=1CH_16:4!8|MId=o130160040081|Strong=2050b 12 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=1CH_16:4!8|MId=o130160040082|Strong=3807a 13 הַזְכִּיר֙ זָכַר VERB _ HebBinyan=HIPHIL 2 conj _ Gloss=make.remembrance|Ref=1CH_16:4!8|MId=o130160040083|Strong=2142|Frame=A0:130160040071;|Type=infinitive_construct 14-16 וּלְהוֹד֣וֹת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=1CH_16:4!9|MId=o130160040091|Strong=2050b 15 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=1CH_16:4!9|MId=o130160040092|Strong=3807a 16 הוֹד֣וֹת יָדָה VERB _ HebBinyan=HIPHIL 13 conj _ Gloss=give.thanks|Ref=1CH_16:4!9|MId=o130160040093|Strong=3034|Frame=A0:130160040071;|Type=infinitive_construct 17-19 וּלְהַלֵּ֔ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=1CH_16:4!10|MId=o130160040101|Strong=2050b 18 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=1CH_16:4!10|MId=o130160040102|Strong=3807a 19 הַלֵּ֔ל הָלַל VERB _ HebBinyan=PIEL 13 conj _ Gloss=praise|Ref=1CH_16:4!10|MId=o130160040103|Strong=1984a|Frame=A0:130160040071;|Type=infinitive_construct 20-21 לַיהוָ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 21 case _ Gloss=(to)|Ref=1CH_16:4!11|MId=o130160040111|Strong=3807a 21 יהוָ֖ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 19 obl _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=1CH_16:4!11|MId=o130160040112|Strong=3068 22 אֱלֹהֵ֥י אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 21 appos _ Gloss=the.God|Ref=1CH_16:4!12|MId=o130160040121|Strong=0430 23 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 22 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Israel|Ref=1CH_16:4!13|MId=o130160040131|Strong=3478|SpaceAfter=No 24 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 23 punct _ Ref=1CH_16:4!13|SpaceAfter=No 25 פ פ PUNCT _ _ 23 punct _ Ref=1CH_16:4!13 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִּתֵּן *he appointed* | wayyiqtol · qal | | מְשָׁרְתִים *servants* | | | | הַזְכִּיר *make remembrance* | infinitive construct · hiphil | מְשָׁרְתִים *servants* | | | | | הוֹדוֹת *give thanks* | infinitive construct · hiphil | מְשָׁרְתִים *servants* | | | | | הַלֵּל *praise* | infinitive construct · piel | מְשָׁרְתִים *servants* | | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to celebrate and to thank and praise the LORD, the God of Israel:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.625/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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