--- title: 2 Chronicles 15:3 — Now for long seasons Israel was without the true God, and without a… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Now for long seasons Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law; Who acts: Israel. 2 Chronicles 15:3 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.15.3/) [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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/15/) / 15:3 # 2 Chronicles 15:3 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים ב **Who acts:** Israel · **What happens:** be This is 2 Chronicles 15:3 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 — Israel — and what happens in the verse, 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. וְיָמִ֥ים רַבִּ֖ים לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל לְלֹ֣א ׀ אֱלֹהֵ֣י אֱמֶ֗ת וּלְלֹ֛א כֹּהֵ֥ן מוֹרֶ֖ה וּלְלֹ֥א תוֹרָֽה׃ [Now for long seasons Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.316/) ## 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:298 # text = וְיָמִ֥ים רַבִּ֖ים לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל לְלֹ֣א ׀ אֱלֹהֵ֣י אֱמֶ֗ת וּלְלֹ֛א כֹּהֵ֥ן מוֹרֶ֖ה וּלְלֹ֥א תוֹרָֽה׃ # verse = 2CH.15.3 1-2 וְיָמִ֥ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 5 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_15:3!1|MId=o140150030011|Strong=2050b 2 יָמִ֥ים יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ Gloss=days|Ref=2CH_15:3!1|MId=o140150030012|Strong=3117 3 רַבִּ֖ים רַב ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 amod _ Gloss=many|Ref=2CH_15:3!2|MId=o140150030021|Strong=7227|Type=adjective 4-5 לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=[belonged].to|Ref=2CH_15:3!3|MId=o140150030031|Strong=3807a 5 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 0 root _ Gloss=Israel|Ref=2CH_15:3!3|MId=o140150030032|Strong=3478 6-7 לְלֹ֣א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=2CH_15:3!4|MId=o140150030041|Strong=3807a 7 לֹ֣א לֹא ADV _ _ 9 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=2CH_15:3!4|MId=o140150030042|Strong=3808|Type=negative 8 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 7 punct _ Ref=2CH_15:3!4 9 אֱלֹהֵ֣י אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 5 obl _ Gloss=[the].God|Ref=2CH_15:3!5|MId=o140150030051|Strong=0430 10 אֱמֶ֗ת אֱמֶת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.truth|Ref=2CH_15:3!6|MId=o140150030061|Strong=0571 11-13 וּלְלֹ֛א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_15:3!7|MId=o140150030071|Strong=2050b 12 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=2CH_15:3!7|MId=o140150030072|Strong=3807a 13 לֹ֛א לֹא ADV _ _ 14 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=2CH_15:3!7|MId=o140150030073|Strong=3808|Type=negative 14 כֹּהֵ֥ן כֹּהֵן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 conj _ Gloss=a.priest|Ref=2CH_15:3!8|MId=o140150030081|Strong=3548 15 מוֹרֶ֖ה יָרָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing 14 nmod _ Gloss=[who].teaches|Ref=2CH_15:3!9|MId=o140150030091|Strong=3384b|Frame=A0:140150030081;|Type=participle_active 16-18 וּלְלֹ֥א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_15:3!10|MId=o140150030101|Strong=2050b 17 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=2CH_15:3!10|MId=o140150030102|Strong=3807a 18 לֹ֥א לֹא ADV _ _ 19 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=2CH_15:3!10|MId=o140150030103|Strong=3808|Type=negative 19 תוֹרָֽה תּוֹרָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 9 conj _ Gloss=[the].law|Ref=2CH_15:3!11|MId=o140150030111|Strong=8451|SpaceAfter=No 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=2CH_15:3!11 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | מוֹרֶה *\[who\] teaches* | participle active · hiphil | כֹּהֵן *a priest* | | | | 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 for long seasons Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.316/) **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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