--- title: 2 Chronicles 2:8 — even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am abo… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful. Who acts: I, house. 2 Chronicles 2:8 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.2.8/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/2/) / 2:8 # 2 Chronicles 2:8 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים ב **Who acts:** I, house · **What happens:** prepare, be, build · **To what, where:** timber, me, abundance This is 2 Chronicles 2:8 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 — I, house — and what happens in the verse to timber, me, abundance, 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. וּלְהָכִ֥ין לִ֛י עֵצִ֖ים לָרֹ֑ב כִּ֥י הַבַּ֛יִת אֲשֶׁר־אֲנִ֥י בוֹנֶ֖ה גָּד֥וֹל וְהַפְלֵֽא׃ [even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.26/) ## 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:25 # text = וּלְהָכִ֥ין לִ֛י עֵצִ֖ים לָרֹ֑ב כִּ֥י הַבַּ֛יִת אֲשֶׁר־אֲנִ֥י בוֹנֶ֖ה גָּד֥וֹל וְהַפְלֵֽא׃ # verse = 2CH.2.8 1-3 וּלְהָכִ֥ין _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 3 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_2:8!1|MId=o140020080011|Strong=2050b 2 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 3 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=2CH_2:8!1|MId=o140020080012|Strong=3807a 3 הָכִ֥ין כּוּן VERB _ HebBinyan=HIPHIL 0 root _ Gloss=prepare|Ref=2CH_2:8!1|MId=o140020080013|Strong=3559|Frame=AA:140020070181;140020070201;A0:140020080031;|Type=infinitive_construct 4-5 לִ֛י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 ל לְ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=2CH_2:8!2|MId=o140020080021|Strong=3807a 5 ִ֛י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ Gloss=me|Ref=2CH_2:8!2|MId=o140020080022|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 6 עֵצִ֖ים עֵץ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 3 obj _ Gloss=wood(s)|Ref=2CH_2:8!3|MId=o140020080031|Strong=6086 7-8 לָרֹ֑ב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 לָ לְ ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=2CH_2:8!4|MId=o140020080041|Strong=3807a 8 רֹ֑ב רֹב NOUN _ Number=Sing 3 obl _ Gloss=abundance|Ref=2CH_2:8!4|MId=o140020080042|Strong=7230 9 כִּ֥י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 15 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=2CH_2:8!5|MId=o140020080051|Strong=3588 10-11 הַבַּ֛יִת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 11 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=2CH_2:8!6|MId=o140020080061|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 11 בַּ֛יִת בַּיִת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Gloss=house|Ref=2CH_2:8!6|MId=o140020080062|Strong=1004 12 אֲשֶׁר־ אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 14 mark _ Gloss=which|Ref=2CH_2:8!7|MId=o140020080071|Strong=0834|Type=relative|SpaceAfter=No 13 אֲנִ֥י אֲנִי PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ Gloss=I|Ref=2CH_2:8!8|MId=o140020080081|Strong=0589|Type=personal 14 בוֹנֶ֖ה בָּנָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 11 acl:relcl _ Gloss=[am].about.to.build|Ref=2CH_2:8!9|MId=o140020080091|Strong=1129|Frame=A0:140020080081;A1:140020080062;|Type=participle_active 15 גָּד֥וֹל גדל ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 advcl _ Gloss=[will.be].great|Ref=2CH_2:8!10|MId=o140020080101|Strong=1419|Type=adjective 16-17 וְהַפְלֵֽא _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 17 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_2:8!11|MId=o140020080111|Strong=2050b 17 הַפְלֵֽא פָּלָא VERB _ HebBinyan=HIPHIL 15 conj _ Gloss=to.act.wonderfully|Ref=2CH_2:8!11|MId=o140020080112|Strong=6381|Frame=A0:140020080062;|Type=infinitive_absolute 18 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 17 punct _ Ref=2CH_2:8!11 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | הָכִין *prepare* | infinitive construct · hiphil | עֵצִים *wood(s)* | | | | | בוֹנֶה *\[am\] about to build* | participle active · qal | אֲנִי *I* | בַּיִת *house* | | | | הַפְלֵֽא *to act wonderfully* | infinitive absolute · hiphil | בַּיִת *house* | | | | 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. [even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.26/) **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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