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title: 2 Chronicles 13:13 — But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them; so they… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them; so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them. Who acts: Jeroboam, ambushment, fathers. 2 Chronicles 13:13 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 2 Chronicles 13:13 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים ב

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**Who acts:** Jeroboam, ambushment, fathers · **What happens:** cause, come about, be · **To what, where:** ambushment

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This is 2 Chronicles 13:13 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 — Jeroboam, ambushment, fathers — and what happens in the verse to ambushment, 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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וְיָֽרָבְעָ֗ם הֵסֵב֙ אֶת־הַמַּאְרָ֔ב לָב֖וֹא מֵֽאַחֲרֵיהֶ֑ם וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה וְהַמַּאְרָ֖ב מֵאַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃

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[But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them; so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.288/)

## 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:271
# text = וְיָֽרָבְעָ֗ם הֵסֵב֙ אֶת־הַמַּאְרָ֔ב לָב֖וֹא מֵֽאַחֲרֵיהֶ֑ם וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה וְהַמַּאְרָ֖ב מֵאַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃
# verse = 2CH.13.13
1-2	וְיָֽרָבְעָ֗ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	3	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_13:13!1|MId=o140130130011|Strong=2050b
2	יָֽרָבְעָ֗ם	יָרָבְעָם	PROPN	_	_	3	nsubj	_	Gloss=Jeroboam|Ref=2CH_13:13!1|MId=o140130130012|Strong=3379
3	הֵסֵב֙	סָבַב	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.had.caused.to.go.round|Ref=2CH_13:13!2|MId=o140130130021|Strong=5437|Frame=AA:140130130012;A0:140130130042;|Type=qatal
4	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	6	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=2CH_13:13!3|MId=o140130130031|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
5-6	הַמַּאְרָ֔ב	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
5	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	6	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=2CH_13:13!4|MId=o140130130041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
6	מַּאְרָ֔ב	מַאֲרָב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	obj	_	Gloss=ambush|Ref=2CH_13:13!4|MId=o140130130042|Strong=3993
7-8	לָב֖וֹא	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
7	לָ	לְ	ADP	_	_	8	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=2CH_13:13!5|MId=o140130130051|Strong=3807a
8	ב֖וֹא	בּוֹא	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	3	advcl	_	Gloss=come|Ref=2CH_13:13!5|MId=o140130130052|Strong=0935|Frame=A0:140130130042;|Type=infinitive_construct
9-11	מֵֽאַחֲרֵיהֶ֑ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	מֵֽ	מִן	ADP	_	_	11	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=2CH_13:13!6|MId=o140130130061|Strong=4480
10	אַחֲרֵי	אַחַר	ADP	_	_	11	case	_	Gloss=behind|Ref=2CH_13:13!6|MId=o140130130062|Strong=0310
11	הֶ֑ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	Gloss=them|Ref=2CH_13:13!6|MId=o140130130063|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
12-13	וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	13	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_13:13!7|MId=o140130130071|Strong=2050b
13	יִּֽהְיוּ֙	הָיָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	3	conj	_	Gloss=they.were|Ref=2CH_13:13!7|MId=o140130130072|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:140130130012;140130120101;|Type=wayyiqtol
14-15	לִפְנֵ֣י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
14	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	_	15	case	_	Gloss=before|Ref=2CH_13:13!8|MId=o140130130081|Strong=3807a
15	פְנֵ֣י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	_	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	Gloss=|Ref=2CH_13:13!8|MId=o140130130082|Strong=6440
16	יְהוּדָ֔ה	יְהוּדָה	PROPN	_	_	15	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=Judah|Ref=2CH_13:13!9|MId=o140130130091|Strong=3063
17-19	וְהַמַּאְרָ֖ב	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	22	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_13:13!10|MId=o140130130101|Strong=2050b
18	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	19	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=2CH_13:13!10|MId=o140130130102|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
19	מַּאְרָ֖ב	מַאֲרָב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	Gloss=ambush|Ref=2CH_13:13!10|MId=o140130130103|Strong=3993
20-22	מֵאַחֲרֵיהֶֽם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
20	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	_	22	case	_	Gloss=[was].from|Ref=2CH_13:13!11|MId=o140130130111|Strong=4480
21	אַחֲרֵי	אַחַר	ADP	_	_	22	case	_	Gloss=behind|Ref=2CH_13:13!11|MId=o140130130112|Strong=0310
22	הֶֽם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	Gloss=them|Ref=2CH_13:13!11|MId=o140130130113|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
23	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	22	punct	_	Ref=2CH_13:13!11
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| הֵסֵב *he had caused to go round* | qatal · hiphil | מַּאְרָב *ambush* |  |  | יָֽרָבְעָם *Jeroboam* |
| בוֹא *come* | infinitive construct · qal | מַּאְרָב *ambush* |  |  |  |
| יִּֽהְיוּ *they were* | wayyiqtol · qal | יָֽרָבְעָם *Jeroboam* |  |  |  |

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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. [But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them; so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.288/)

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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:271`.

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