--- title: 2 Chronicles 13:5 — ought ye not to know that the LORD, the God of Israel, gave the king… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: ought ye not to know that the LORD, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt? Who acts: ye, LORD, salt. 2 Chronicles 13:5 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.13.5/) [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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/13/) / 13:5 # 2 Chronicles 13:5 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים ב **Who acts:** ye, LORD, salt · **What happens:** not know, give, covenant · **To what, where:** kingdom, David, Israel · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is 2 Chronicles 13:5 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 — ye, LORD, salt — and what happens in the verse to kingdom, David, Israel, 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. הֲלֹ֤א לָכֶם֙ לָדַ֔עַת כִּ֞י יְהוָ֣ה ׀ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל נָתַ֨ן מַמְלָכָ֧ה לְדָוִ֛יד עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לְעוֹלָ֑ם ל֥וֹ וּלְבָנָ֖יו בְּרִ֥ית מֶֽלַח׃ס [ought ye not to know that the LORD, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.279/) ## 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:263 # text = הֲלֹ֤א לָכֶם֙ לָדַ֔עַת כִּ֞י יְהוָ֣ה ׀ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל נָתַ֨ן מַמְלָכָ֧ה לְדָוִ֛יד עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לְעוֹלָ֑ם ל֥וֹ וּלְבָנָ֖יו בְּרִ֥ית מֶֽלַח׃ס # verse = 2CH.13.5 1-2 הֲלֹ֤א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 הֲ הֲ PART _ _ 2 advmod _ Gloss=?|Ref=2CH_13:5!1|MId=o140130050011|Strong=1886b|Type=interrogative 2 לֹ֤א לֹא ADV _ _ 0 root _ Gloss=not|Ref=2CH_13:5!1|MId=o140130050012|Strong=3808|Type=negative 3-4 לָכֶם֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 ל לְ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=[belong].to|Ref=2CH_13:5!2|MId=o140130050021|Strong=3807a 4 ָכֶם֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ Gloss=you|Ref=2CH_13:5!2|MId=o140130050022|Strong=3641b|Type=pronominal 5-6 לָדַ֔עַת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 לָ לְ ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=[does].to|Ref=2CH_13:5!3|MId=o140130050031|Strong=3807a 6 דַ֔עַת יָדַע VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 2 advcl _ Gloss=know|Ref=2CH_13:5!3|MId=o140130050032|Strong=3045|Frame=A0:140130040111;140130040131;A1:140130050081;|Type=infinitive_construct 7 כִּ֞י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 12 mark _ Gloss=(dm).that|Ref=2CH_13:5!4|MId=o140130050041|Strong=3588 8 יְהוָ֣ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 12 nsubj _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=2CH_13:5!5|MId=o140130050051|Strong=3068 9 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 8 punct _ Ref=2CH_13:5!5 10 אֱלֹהֵ֣י אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 8 appos _ Gloss=the.God|Ref=2CH_13:5!6|MId=o140130050061|Strong=0430 11 יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 10 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Israel|Ref=2CH_13:5!7|MId=o140130050071|Strong=3478 12 נָתַ֨ן נָתַן VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 6 ccomp _ Gloss=he.has.given|Ref=2CH_13:5!8|MId=o140130050081|Strong=5414|Frame=A0:140130050051;A1:140130050091;|Type=qatal 13 מַמְלָכָ֧ה מַמְלָכָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 12 obj _ Gloss=kingship|Ref=2CH_13:5!9|MId=o140130050091|Strong=4467 14-15 לְדָוִ֛יד _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=2CH_13:5!10|MId=o140130050101|Strong=3807a 15 דָוִ֛יד דָּוִד PROPN _ _ 12 obl _ Gloss=David|Ref=2CH_13:5!10|MId=o140130050102|Strong=1732 16 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=over|Ref=2CH_13:5!11|MId=o140130050111|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 17 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 12 obl _ Gloss=Israel|Ref=2CH_13:5!12|MId=o140130050121|Strong=3478 18-19 לְעוֹלָ֑ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=forever|Ref=2CH_13:5!13|MId=o140130050131|Strong=3807a 19 עוֹלָ֑ם עוֹלָם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 12 obl _ Gloss=of.perpetuity|Ref=2CH_13:5!13|MId=o140130050132|Strong=5769 20-21 ל֥וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 ל לְ ADP _ _ 21 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=2CH_13:5!14|MId=o140130050141|Strong=3807a 21 ֥וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 parataxis _ Gloss=him|Ref=2CH_13:5!14|MId=o140130050142|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 22-25 וּלְבָנָ֖יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 24 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_13:5!15|MId=o140130050151|Strong=2050b 23 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 24 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=2CH_13:5!15|MId=o140130050152|Strong=3807a 24 בָנָ֖י בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 21 conj _ Gloss=descendants|Ref=2CH_13:5!15|MId=o140130050153|Strong=1121 25 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=2CH_13:5!15|MId=o140130050154|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 26 בְּרִ֥ית בְּרִית NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 21 obl _ Gloss=a.covenant|Ref=2CH_13:5!16|MId=o140130050161|Strong=1285 27 מֶֽלַח מֶלַח NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 26 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.salt|Ref=2CH_13:5!17|MId=o140130050171|Strong=4417|SpaceAfter=No 28 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 27 punct _ Ref=2CH_13:5!17|SpaceAfter=No 29 ס ס PUNCT _ _ 27 punct _ Ref=2CH_13:5!17 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | דַעַת *know* | infinitive construct · qal | | נָתַן *he has given* | | | | נָתַן *he has given* | qatal · qal | יְהוָה *Yahweh* | מַמְלָכָה *kingship* | | | 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. [ought ye not to know that the LORD, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.279/) **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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