--- title: 2 Chronicles 20:4 — And Judah gathered themselves together, to seek help of the LORD; ev… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Judah gathered themselves together, to seek help of the LORD; even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD. Who acts: Judah, children. 2 Chronicles 20:4 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.20.4/) [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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/20/) / 20:4 # 2 Chronicles 20:4 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים ב **Who acts:** Judah, children · **What happens:** gather, seek, come, help · **To what, where:** children, help, cities, LORD This is 2 Chronicles 20:4 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 — Judah, children — and what happens in the verse to children, help, cities, LORD, 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. וַיִּקָּבְצ֣וּ יְהוּדָ֔ה לְבַקֵּ֖שׁ מֵֽיְהוָ֑ה גַּ֚ם מִכָּל־עָרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה בָּ֖אוּ לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃ [And Judah gathered themselves together, to seek help of the LORD; even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.422/) ## 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:396 # text = וַיִּקָּבְצ֣וּ יְהוּדָ֔ה לְבַקֵּ֖שׁ מֵֽיְהוָ֑ה גַּ֚ם מִכָּל־עָרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה בָּ֖אוּ לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃ # verse = 2CH.20.4 1-2 וַיִּקָּבְצ֣וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_20:4!1|MId=o140200040011|Strong=2050b 2 יִּקָּבְצ֣וּ קָבַץ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.gathered|Ref=2CH_20:4!1|MId=o140200040012|Strong=6908|Frame=A0:140200040021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 יְהוּדָ֔ה יְהוּדָה PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Judah|Ref=2CH_20:4!2|MId=o140200040021|Strong=3063 4-5 לְבַקֵּ֖שׁ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=2CH_20:4!3|MId=o140200040031|Strong=3807a 5 בַקֵּ֖שׁ בָּקַשׁ VERB _ HebBinyan=PIEL 2 advcl _ Gloss=seek|Ref=2CH_20:4!3|MId=o140200040032|Strong=1245|Frame=A0:140200040021;|Type=infinitive_construct 6-7 מֵֽיְהוָ֑ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 מֵֽ מִן ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=2CH_20:4!4|MId=o140200040041|Strong=4480 7 יְהוָ֑ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 5 obl _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=2CH_20:4!4|MId=o140200040042|Strong=3068 8 גַּ֚ם גַּם ADV _ _ 10 advmod _ Gloss=also|Ref=2CH_20:4!5|MId=o140200040051|Strong=1571|Type=affirmation 9-10 מִכָּל־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=2CH_20:4!6|MId=o140200040061|Strong=4480 10 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 obl _ Gloss=all|Ref=2CH_20:4!6|MId=o140200040062|Strong=3605 11 עָרֵ֣י עִיר NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 10 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.cities|Ref=2CH_20:4!7|MId=o140200040071|Strong=5892 12 יְהוּדָ֔ה יְהוּדָה PROPN _ _ 11 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Judah|Ref=2CH_20:4!8|MId=o140200040081|Strong=3063 13 בָּ֖אוּ בּוֹא VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 parataxis _ Gloss=they.came|Ref=2CH_20:4!9|MId=o140200040091|Strong=0935|Frame=A0:140200040021;|Type=qatal 14-15 לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=2CH_20:4!10|MId=o140200040101|Strong=3807a 15 בַקֵּ֥שׁ בָּקַשׁ VERB _ HebBinyan=PIEL 13 advcl _ Gloss=seek|Ref=2CH_20:4!10|MId=o140200040102|Strong=1245|Frame=A0:140200040021;A1:140200040121;|Type=infinitive_construct 16 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=2CH_20:4!11|MId=o140200040111|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 17 יְהוָֽה יהוה PROPN _ _ 15 obj _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=2CH_20:4!12|MId=o140200040121|Strong=3068|SpaceAfter=No 18 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 17 punct _ Ref=2CH_20:4!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִּקָּבְצוּ *they gathered* | wayyiqtol · niphal | יְהוּדָה *Judah* | | | | | בַקֵּשׁ *seek* | infinitive construct · piel | יְהוּדָה *Judah* | | | | | בָּאוּ *they came* | qatal · qal | יְהוּדָה *Judah* | | | | | בַקֵּשׁ *seek* | infinitive construct · piel | יְהוּדָה *Judah* | יְהוָֽה *Yahweh* | | | 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 Judah gathered themselves together, to seek help of the LORD; even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.422/) **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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