--- title: 2 Chronicles 18:6 — But Jehoshaphat said: 'Is there not here besides a prophet of the LO… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: But Jehoshaphat said: 'Is there not here besides a prophet of the LORD, that we might inquire of him?' Who acts: Jehoshaphat, prophet, we. 2 Chronicles 18:6 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.18.6/) [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/) / 18:6 # 2 Chronicles 18:6 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים ב **Who acts:** Jehoshaphat, prophet, we · **What happens:** say, not be, inquire · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is 2 Chronicles 18:6 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 — Jehoshaphat, prophet, we — 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. וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ יְה֣וֹשָׁפָ֔ט הַאֵ֨ין פֹּ֥ה נָבִ֛יא לַיהוָ֖ה ע֑וֹד וְנִדְרְשָׁ֖ה מֵאֹתֽוֹ׃ [But Jehoshaphat said: 'Is there not here besides a prophet of the LORD, that we might inquire of him?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.374/) ## 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:353 # text = וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ יְה֣וֹשָׁפָ֔ט הַאֵ֨ין פֹּ֥ה נָבִ֛יא לַיהוָ֖ה ע֑וֹד וְנִדְרְשָׁ֖ה מֵאֹתֽוֹ׃ # verse = 2CH.18.6 1-2 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_18:6!1|MId=o140180060011|Strong=2050b 2 יֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.said|Ref=2CH_18:6!1|MId=o140180060012|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:140180060021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 יְה֣וֹשָׁפָ֔ט יְהוֹשָׁפָט PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Jehoshaphat|Ref=2CH_18:6!2|MId=o140180060021|Strong=3092 4-5 הַאֵ֨ין _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 הַ הֲ PART _ _ 5 advmod _ Gloss=[is].there|Ref=2CH_18:6!3|MId=o140180060031|Strong=1886b|Type=interrogative 5 אֵ֨ין אַיִן ADV _ _ 2 ccomp _ Gloss=not?|Ref=2CH_18:6!3|MId=o140180060032|Strong=0369|Type=negative 6 פֹּ֥ה פֹּה ADV _ _ 5 advmod _ Gloss=here|Ref=2CH_18:6!4|MId=o140180060041|Strong=6311 7 נָבִ֛יא נָבִיא NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Gloss=a.prophet|Ref=2CH_18:6!5|MId=o140180060051|Strong=5030 8-9 לַיהוָ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=of|Ref=2CH_18:6!6|MId=o140180060061|Strong=3807a 9 יהוָ֖ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 7 nmod _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=2CH_18:6!6|MId=o140180060062|Strong=3068 10 ע֑וֹד עוֹד ADV _ _ 5 advmod _ Gloss=still|Ref=2CH_18:6!7|MId=o140180060071|Strong=5750 11-12 וְנִדְרְשָׁ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 12 cc _ Gloss=so|Ref=2CH_18:6!8|MId=o140180060081|Strong=2050b 12 נִדְרְשָׁ֖ה דָּרַשׁ VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=1 5 conj _ Gloss=that.we.may.enquire|Ref=2CH_18:6!8|MId=o140180060082|Strong=1875|Frame=A0:140180060021;140180050021;140180030081;140180050031;|Type=cohortative 13-15 מֵאֹתֽוֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 מֵ מִן ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=2CH_18:6!9|MId=o140180060091|Strong=4480 14 אֹת אֵת ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=2CH_18:6!9|MId=o140180060092|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker 15 ֽוֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ Gloss=him|Ref=2CH_18:6!9|MId=o140180060093|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 16 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 15 punct _ Ref=2CH_18:6!9 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **not** יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | יְהוֹשָׁפָט *Jehoshaphat* | | | | | נִדְרְשָׁה *that we may enquire* | cohortative · qal | יְהוֹשָׁפָט *Jehoshaphat* | | | | 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. [But Jehoshaphat said: 'Is there not here besides a prophet of the LORD, that we might inquire of him?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.374/) **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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