--- title: 2 Chronicles 1:9 — Now, O LORD God, let Thy promise unto David my father be established… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Now, O LORD God, let Thy promise unto David my father be established; for Thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. Who acts: you, promise, Thou, Thy. 2 Chronicles 1:9 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/2CH.1.9/) [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/) / [2 Chronicles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/) / [chapter 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/1/) / 1:9 # 2 Chronicles 1:9 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים ב **Who acts:** you, promise, Thou, Thy · **What happens:** let, establish, make, promise · **To what, where:** promise, me This is 2 Chronicles 1:9 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 — you, promise, Thou, Thy — and what happens in the verse to promise, me, 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 36 chapters of 2 Chronicles on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. עַתָּה֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֔ים יֵֽאָמֵן֙ דְּבָ֣רְךָ֔ עִ֖ם דָּוִ֣יד אָבִ֑י כִּ֤י אַתָּה֙ הִמְלַכְתַּ֔נִי עַל־עַ֕ם רַ֖ב כַּעֲפַ֥ר הָאָֽרֶץ׃ [Now, O LORD God, let Thy promise unto David my father be established; for Thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.8/) ## 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:2CH:8 # text = עַתָּה֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֔ים יֵֽאָמֵן֙ דְּבָ֣רְךָ֔ עִ֖ם דָּוִ֣יד אָבִ֑י כִּ֤י אַתָּה֙ הִמְלַכְתַּ֔נִי עַל־עַ֕ם רַ֖ב כַּעֲפַ֥ר הָאָֽרֶץ׃ # verse = 2CH.1.9 1 עַתָּה֙ עַתָּה ADV _ _ 0 root _ Gloss=now|Ref=2CH_1:9!1|MId=o140010090011|Strong=6258 2 יְהוָ֣ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 1 parataxis _ Gloss=O.Yahweh|Ref=2CH_1:9!2|MId=o140010090021|Strong=3068 3 אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 appos _ Gloss=God|Ref=2CH_1:9!3|MId=o140010090031|Strong=0430 4 יֵֽאָמֵן֙ אָמַן VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 parataxis _ Gloss=let.it.be.established|Ref=2CH_1:9!4|MId=o140010090041|Strong=0539|Frame=A1:140010090051;|Type=jussive 5-6 דְּבָ֣רְךָ֔ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 דְּבָ֣ר דָּבָר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Gloss=word|Ref=2CH_1:9!5|MId=o140010090051|Strong=1697 6 ְךָ֔ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=2CH_1:9!5|MId=o140010090052|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 7 עִ֖ם עִם ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=with|Ref=2CH_1:9!6|MId=o140010090061|Strong=5973 8 דָּוִ֣יד דָּוִד PROPN _ _ 5 nmod _ Gloss=David|Ref=2CH_1:9!7|MId=o140010090071|Strong=1732 9-10 אָבִ֑י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 אָב אָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 appos _ Gloss=father|Ref=2CH_1:9!8|MId=o140010090081|Strong=0001 10 ִ֑י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=2CH_1:9!8|MId=o140010090082|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 11 כִּ֤י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 13 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=2CH_1:9!9|MId=o140010090091|Strong=3588 12 אַתָּה֙ אַתָּה PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ Gloss=you|Ref=2CH_1:9!10|MId=o140010090101|Strong=0859|Type=personal 13-14 הִמְלַכְתַּ֔נִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 הִמְלַכְתַּ֔ מָלַךְ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=2 2 parataxis _ Gloss=you|Ref=2CH_1:9!11|MId=o140010090111|Strong=4427|Frame=AA:140010090101;A0:140010090112;|Type=qatal 14 נִי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ Gloss=have.made.me.king|Ref=2CH_1:9!11|MId=o140010090112|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal 15 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=over|Ref=2CH_1:9!12|MId=o140010090121|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 16 עַ֕ם עַם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 obl _ Gloss=a.people|Ref=2CH_1:9!13|MId=o140010090131|Strong=5971 17 רַ֖ב רַב ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 amod _ Gloss=numerous|Ref=2CH_1:9!14|MId=o140010090141|Strong=7227|Type=adjective 18-19 כַּעֲפַ֥ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 כַּ כְּ ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=like|Ref=2CH_1:9!15|MId=o140010090151|Strong=3509a 19 עֲפַ֥ר עָפָר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 17 nmod _ Gloss=the.dust|Ref=2CH_1:9!15|MId=o140010090152|Strong=6083 20-21 הָאָֽרֶץ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 21 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=2CH_1:9!16|MId=o140010090161|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 21 אָֽרֶץ אֶרֶץ NOUN _ Number=Sing 19 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.earth|Ref=2CH_1:9!16|MId=o140010090162|Strong=0776 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=2CH_1:9!16 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֵֽאָמֵן *let it be established* | jussive · niphal | | דְּבָר *word* | | | | הִמְלַכְתַּ *you* | qatal · hiphil | נִי *have made me king* | | | אַתָּה *you* | 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. [Now, O LORD God, let Thy promise unto David my father be established; for Thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.8/) **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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