--- title: 1 Chronicles 4:9 — And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren; and his mother call… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying: 'Because I bore him with pain.' Who acts: Jabez, mother, I. 1 Chronicles 4:9 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.4.9/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH/4/) / 4:9 # 1 Chronicles 4:9 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים א **Who acts:** Jabez, mother, I · **What happens:** be, call, say, bear, name · **To what, where:** name, Jabez · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is 1 Chronicles 4:9 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 — Jabez, mother, I — and what happens in the verse to name, Jabez, 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. וַיְהִ֣י יַעְבֵּ֔ץ נִכְבָּ֖ד מֵאֶחָ֑יו וְאִמּ֗וֹ קָרְאָ֨ה שְׁמ֤וֹ יַעְבֵּץ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר כִּ֥י יָלַ֖דְתִּי בְּעֹֽצֶב׃ [And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying: 'Because I bore him with pain.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.167/) ## 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:141 # text = וַיְהִ֣י יַעְבֵּ֔ץ נִכְבָּ֖ד מֵאֶחָ֑יו וְאִמּ֗וֹ קָרְאָ֨ה שְׁמ֤וֹ יַעְבֵּץ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר כִּ֥י יָלַ֖דְתִּי בְּעֹֽצֶב׃ # verse = 1CH.4.9 1-2 וַיְהִ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 4 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=1CH_4:9!1|MId=o130040090011|Strong=2050b 2 יְהִ֣י הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 4 cop _ Gloss=he.was|Ref=1CH_4:9!1|MId=o130040090012|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:130040090021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 יַעְבֵּ֔ץ יַעְבֵּץ PROPN _ _ 4 nsubj _ Gloss=Jabez|Ref=1CH_4:9!2|MId=o130040090021|Strong=3258 4 נִכְבָּ֖ד כָּבֵד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=honored|Ref=1CH_4:9!3|MId=o130040090031|Strong=3513|Frame=A1:130040090021;|Type=participle_active 5-7 מֵאֶחָ֑יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 מֵ מִן ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=more|Ref=1CH_4:9!4|MId=o130040090041|Strong=4480 6 אֶחָ֑י אָח NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 4 nmod _ Gloss=than|Ref=1CH_4:9!4|MId=o130040090042|Strong=0251 7 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his.brothers|Ref=1CH_4:9!4|MId=o130040090043|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 8-10 וְאִמּ֗וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 11 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=1CH_4:9!5|MId=o130040090051|Strong=2050b 9 אִמּ אֵם NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Gloss=mother|Ref=1CH_4:9!5|MId=o130040090052|Strong=0517 10 ֗וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=1CH_4:9!5|MId=o130040090053|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 11 קָרְאָ֨ה קָרָא VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 4 conj _ Gloss=she.had.called|Ref=1CH_4:9!6|MId=o130040090061|Strong=7121|Frame=A0:130040090052;A1:130040090071;|Type=qatal 12-13 שְׁמ֤וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 שְׁמ שֵׁם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 obj _ Gloss=name|Ref=1CH_4:9!7|MId=o130040090071|Strong=8034 13 ֤וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=1CH_4:9!7|MId=o130040090072|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 14 יַעְבֵּץ֙ יַעְבֵּץ PROPN _ _ 11 xcomp _ Gloss=Jabez|Ref=1CH_4:9!8|MId=o130040090081|Strong=3258 15-16 לֵאמֹ֔ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 לֵ לְ ADP _ ExtPos=SCONJ 18 mark _ Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=1CH_4:9!9|MId=o130040090091|Strong=3807a 16 אמֹ֔ר אָמַר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 15 fixed _ Gloss=|Ref=1CH_4:9!9|MId=o130040090092|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:130040090052;|Type=infinitive_construct 17 כִּ֥י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 18 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=1CH_4:9!10|MId=o130040090101|Strong=3588 18 יָלַ֖דְתִּי יָלַד VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 11 ccomp _ Gloss=I.gave.birth|Ref=1CH_4:9!11|MId=o130040090111|Strong=3205|Frame=A0:130040090052;A1:130040090081;|Type=qatal 19-20 בְּעֹֽצֶב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=1CH_4:9!12|MId=o130040090121|Strong=0871a 20 עֹֽצֶב עֹצֶב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 obl _ Gloss=pain|Ref=1CH_4:9!12|MId=o130040090122|Strong=6090a 21 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 20 punct _ Ref=1CH_4:9!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · assert · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יְהִי *he was* | wayyiqtol · qal | יַעְבֵּץ *Jabez* | | | | | נִכְבָּד *honored* | participle active · niphal | | יַעְבֵּץ *Jabez* | | | | קָרְאָה *she had called* | qatal · qal | אִמּ *mother* | שְׁמ *name* | | | | אמֹר | infinitive construct · qal | אִמּ *mother* | | | | | יָלַדְתִּי *I gave birth* | qatal · qal | אִמּ *mother* | יַעְבֵּץ *Jabez* | | | 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 Jabez was more honourable than his brethren; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying: 'Because I bore him with pain.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.167/) **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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