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title: 2 Chronicles 11:22 — And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, even th… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, even the prince among his brethren; for he was minded to make him king. Who acts: Rehoboam. 2 Chronicles 11:22 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 11:22 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים ב

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**Who acts:** Rehoboam · **What happens:** appoint, be, make · **To what, where:** Abijah, Rehoboam

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This is 2 Chronicles 11:22 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 — Rehoboam — and what happens in the verse to Abijah, Rehoboam, 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.

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וַיַּֽעֲמֵ֨ד לָרֹ֧אשׁ רְחַבְעָ֛ם אֶת־אֲבִיָּ֥ה בֶֽן־מַעֲכָ֖ה לְנָגִ֣יד בְּאֶחָ֑יו כִּ֖י לְהַמְלִיכֽוֹ׃

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[And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, even the prince among his brethren; for he was minded to make him king.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.254/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:241
# text = וַיַּֽעֲמֵ֨ד לָרֹ֧אשׁ רְחַבְעָ֛ם אֶת־אֲבִיָּ֥ה בֶֽן־מַעֲכָ֖ה לְנָגִ֣יד בְּאֶחָ֑יו כִּ֖י לְהַמְלִיכֽוֹ׃
# verse = 2CH.11.22
1-2	וַיַּֽעֲמֵ֨ד	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_11:22!1|MId=o140110220011|Strong=2050b
2	יַּֽעֲמֵ֨ד	עָמַד	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.appointed|Ref=2CH_11:22!1|MId=o140110220012|Strong=5975|Frame=AA:140110220031;A0:140110220051;|Type=wayyiqtol
3-5	לָרֹ֧אשׁ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	לָ	לְ	ADP	_	_	5	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=2CH_11:22!2|MId=o140110220021|Strong=3807a
4	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	5	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=2CH_11:22!2|MId=o140110220021ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
5	רֹ֧אשׁ	רֹאשׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Gloss=chief|Ref=2CH_11:22!2|MId=o140110220022|Strong=7218
6	רְחַבְעָ֛ם	רְחַבְעָם	PROPN	_	_	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=Rehoboam|Ref=2CH_11:22!3|MId=o140110220031|Strong=7346
7	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	8	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=2CH_11:22!4|MId=o140110220041|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
8	אֲבִיָּ֥ה	אֲבִיָּה	PROPN	_	_	2	obj	_	Gloss=Abijah|Ref=2CH_11:22!5|MId=o140110220051|Strong=0029
9	בֶֽן־	בֵּן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	8	appos	_	Gloss=the.son|Ref=2CH_11:22!6|MId=o140110220061|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No
10	מַעֲכָ֖ה	מַעֲכָה	PROPN	_	_	9	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Maacah|Ref=2CH_11:22!7|MId=o140110220071|Strong=4601
11-12	לְנָגִ֣יד	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	12	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=2CH_11:22!8|MId=o140110220081|Strong=3807a
12	נָגִ֣יד	נָגִיד	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Gloss=leader|Ref=2CH_11:22!8|MId=o140110220082|Strong=5057
13-15	בְּאֶחָ֑יו	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	14	case	_	Gloss=among|Ref=2CH_11:22!9|MId=o140110220091|Strong=0871a
14	אֶחָ֑י	אָח	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	Gloss=brothers|Ref=2CH_11:22!9|MId=o140110220092|Strong=0251
15	ו	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his|Ref=2CH_11:22!9|MId=o140110220093|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
16	כִּ֖י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	18	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=2CH_11:22!10|MId=o140110220101|Strong=3588
17-19	לְהַמְלִיכֽוֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	18	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=2CH_11:22!11|MId=o140110220111|Strong=3807a
18	הַמְלִיכ	מָלַךְ	VERB	_	HebBinyan=HIPHIL	2	advcl	_	Gloss=make|Ref=2CH_11:22!11|MId=o140110220112|Strong=4427|Frame=AA:140110220031;A0:140110220113;|Type=infinitive_construct
19	ֽוֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	Gloss=him.king|Ref=2CH_11:22!11|MId=o140110220113|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
20	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	19	punct	_	Ref=2CH_11:22!11
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יַּֽעֲמֵד *he appointed* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | אֲבִיָּה *Abijah* |  |  | רְחַבְעָם *Rehoboam* |
| הַמְלִיכ *make* | infinitive construct · hiphil | ֽוֹ *him king* |  |  | רְחַבְעָם *Rehoboam* |

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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}

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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.

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1. [And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, even the prince among his brethren; for he was minded to make him king.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.254/)

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**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).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:2CH:241`.

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