--- title: 2 Chronicles 18:17 — And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat: 'Did I not tell thee tha… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat: 'Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?' Who acts: king, I. 2 Chronicles 18:17 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.18.17/) [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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/18/) / 18:17 # 2 Chronicles 18:17 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים ב **Who acts:** king, I · **What happens:** say, not tell, not prophesy · **To what, where:** Jehoshaphat, thee, good · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is 2 Chronicles 18:17 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 — king, I — and what happens in the verse to Jehoshaphat, thee, good, 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. וַיֹּ֥אמֶר מֶֽלֶךְ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֶל־יְהוֹשָׁפָ֑ט הֲלֹא֙ אָמַ֣רְתִּי אֵלֶ֔יךָ לֹא־יִתְנַבֵּ֥א עָלַ֛י ט֖וֹב כִּ֥י אִם־לְרָֽע׃ס [And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat: 'Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.385/) ## 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:364 # text = וַיֹּ֥אמֶר מֶֽלֶךְ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֶל־יְהוֹשָׁפָ֑ט הֲלֹא֙ אָמַ֣רְתִּי אֵלֶ֔יךָ לֹא־יִתְנַבֵּ֥א עָלַ֛י ט֖וֹב כִּ֥י אִם־לְרָֽע׃ס # verse = 2CH.18.17 1-2 וַיֹּ֥אמֶר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_18:17!1|MId=o140180170011|Strong=2050b 2 יֹּ֥אמֶר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.said|Ref=2CH_18:17!1|MId=o140180170012|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:140180170021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 מֶֽלֶךְ־ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Gloss=the.king|Ref=2CH_18:17!2|MId=o140180170021|Strong=4428|SpaceAfter=No 4 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Israel|Ref=2CH_18:17!3|MId=o140180170031|Strong=3478 5 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=2CH_18:17!4|MId=o140180170041|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 6 יְהוֹשָׁפָ֑ט יְהוֹשָׁפָט PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Jehoshaphat|Ref=2CH_18:17!5|MId=o140180170051|Strong=3092 7-8 הֲלֹא֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 הֲ הֲ PART _ _ 9 advmod _ Gloss=?|Ref=2CH_18:17!6|MId=o140180170061|Strong=1886b|Type=interrogative 8 לֹא֙ לֹא ADV _ _ 9 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=2CH_18:17!6|MId=o140180170062|Strong=3808|Type=negative 9 אָמַ֣רְתִּי אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 2 ccomp _ Gloss=did.I.say|Ref=2CH_18:17!7|MId=o140180170071|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:140180170021;A1:140180170101;|Type=qatal 10-11 אֵלֶ֔יךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 אֵלֶ֔י אֶל ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=2CH_18:17!8|MId=o140180170081|Strong=0413 11 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ Gloss=you|Ref=2CH_18:17!8|MId=o140180170082|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 12 לֹא־ לֹא ADV _ _ 13 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=2CH_18:17!9|MId=o140180170091|Strong=3808|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 13 יִתְנַבֵּ֥א נָבָא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HITHPAEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 9 ccomp _ Gloss=he.prophesies|Ref=2CH_18:17!10|MId=o140180170101|Strong=5012|Frame=A0:140180130021;A1:140180170121;|Type=yiqtol 14-15 עָלַ֛י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 עָל עַל ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=2CH_18:17!11|MId=o140180170111|Strong=5921 15 ַ֛י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ Gloss=me|Ref=2CH_18:17!11|MId=o140180170112|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 16 ט֖וֹב טוֹב ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 obj _ Gloss=good|Ref=2CH_18:17!12|MId=o140180170121|Strong=2896|Type=adjective 17 כִּ֥י כִּי SCONJ _ ExtPos=SCONJ 20 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=2CH_18:17!13|MId=o140180170131|Strong=3588 18 אִם־ אִם SCONJ _ _ 17 fixed _ Gloss=(if)|Ref=2CH_18:17!14|MId=o140180170141|Strong=0518|SpaceAfter=No 19-20 לְרָֽע _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=(to)|Ref=2CH_18:17!15|MId=o140180170151|Strong=3807a 20 רָֽע רַע ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ Gloss=evil|Ref=2CH_18:17!15|MId=o140180170152|Strong=7451|Type=adjective 21 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 20 punct _ Ref=2CH_18:17!15|SpaceAfter=No 22 ס ס PUNCT _ _ 20 punct _ Ref=2CH_18:17!15 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: yes - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | מֶֽלֶךְ־ *the king* | | | | | **not** אָמַרְתִּי *did I say* | qatal · qal | מֶֽלֶךְ־ *the king* | יִתְנַבֵּא *he prophesies* | | | | **not** יִתְנַבֵּא *he prophesies* | yiqtol · hithpael | | טוֹב *good* | | | 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. [And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat: 'Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.385/) **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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