--- title: 2 Chronicles 25:17 — Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son o… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying: 'Come, let us look one another in the face.' Who acts: Amaziah, us. 2 Chronicles 25:17 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.25.17/) [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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/25/) / 25:17 # 2 Chronicles 25:17 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים ב **Who acts:** Amaziah, us · **What happens:** take, send, say, come, let, look · **To what, where:** advice, Joash, us, one, face · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is 2 Chronicles 25:17 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 — Amaziah, us — and what happens in the verse to advice, Joash, us, one, face, 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. וַיִּוָּעַ֗ץ אֲמַצְיָ֙הוּ֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֔ה וַ֠יִּשְׁלַח אֶל־יוֹאָ֨שׁ בֶּן־יְהוֹאָחָ֧ז בֶּן־יֵה֛וּא מֶ֥לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר לְכָ֖ה נִתְרָאֶ֥ה פָנִֽים׃ [Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying: 'Come, let us look one another in the face.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.564/) ## 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:526 # text = וַיִּוָּעַ֗ץ אֲמַצְיָ֙הוּ֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֔ה וַ֠יִּשְׁלַח אֶל־יוֹאָ֨שׁ בֶּן־יְהוֹאָחָ֧ז בֶּן־יֵה֛וּא מֶ֥לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר לְכָ֖ה נִתְרָאֶ֥ה פָנִֽים׃ # verse = 2CH.25.17 1-2 וַיִּוָּעַ֗ץ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_25:17!1|MId=o140250170011|Strong=2050b 2 יִּוָּעַ֗ץ יָעַץ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.took.counsel|Ref=2CH_25:17!1|MId=o140250170012|Strong=3289|Frame=A0:140250170021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 אֲמַצְיָ֙הוּ֙ אֲמַצְיָהוּ PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Amaziah|Ref=2CH_25:17!2|MId=o140250170021|Strong=0558a 4 מֶ֣לֶךְ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 appos _ Gloss=the.king|Ref=2CH_25:17!3|MId=o140250170031|Strong=4428 5 יְהוּדָ֔ה יְהוּדָה PROPN _ _ 4 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Judah|Ref=2CH_25:17!4|MId=o140250170041|Strong=3063 6-7 וַ֠יִּשְׁלַח _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 וַ֠ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_25:17!5|MId=o140250170051|Strong=2050b 7 יִּשְׁלַח שָׁלַח VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.sent|Ref=2CH_25:17!5|MId=o140250170052|Strong=7971|Frame=A0:140250170021;|Type=wayyiqtol 8 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=2CH_25:17!6|MId=o140250170061|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 9 יוֹאָ֨שׁ יוֹאָשׁ PROPN _ _ 7 obl _ Gloss=Joash|Ref=2CH_25:17!7|MId=o140250170071|Strong=3101 10 בֶּן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 appos _ Gloss=the.son|Ref=2CH_25:17!8|MId=o140250170081|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 11 יְהוֹאָחָ֧ז יְהוֹאָחָז PROPN _ _ 10 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Jehoahaz|Ref=2CH_25:17!9|MId=o140250170091|Strong=3059 12 בֶּן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 appos _ Gloss=the.son|Ref=2CH_25:17!10|MId=o140250170101|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 13 יֵה֛וּא יֵהוּא PROPN _ _ 12 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Jehu|Ref=2CH_25:17!11|MId=o140250170111|Strong=3058 14 מֶ֥לֶךְ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 appos _ Gloss=the.king|Ref=2CH_25:17!12|MId=o140250170121|Strong=4428 15 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 14 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Israel|Ref=2CH_25:17!13|MId=o140250170131|Strong=3478 16-17 לֵאמֹ֑ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 לֵ לְ ADP _ ExtPos=SCONJ 18 mark _ Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=2CH_25:17!14|MId=o140250170141|Strong=3807a 17 אמֹ֑ר אָמַר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 16 fixed _ Gloss=|Ref=2CH_25:17!14|MId=o140250170142|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:140250170021;|Type=infinitive_construct 18-19 לְכָ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 לְכ הָלַךְ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 7 advcl _ Gloss=come|Ref=2CH_25:17!16|MId=o140250170161|Strong=1980|Frame=A0:140250170071;|Type=imperative 19 ָ֖ה ה X _ _ 18 nmod _ Gloss=|Ref=2CH_25:17!16|MId=o140250170162|Strong=1886j|Type=paragogic_he 20 נִתְרָאֶ֥ה רָאָה VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=HITHPAEL|Number=Plur|Person=1 18 parataxis _ Gloss=let.us.look.at.one.another|Ref=2CH_25:17!17|MId=o140250170171|Strong=7200|Frame=A0:140250170021;140250170071;A1:140250170181;|Type=cohortative 21 פָנִֽים פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 20 obj _ Gloss=faces|Ref=2CH_25:17!18|MId=o140250170181|Strong=6440|SpaceAfter=No 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=2CH_25:17!18 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִּוָּעַץ *he took counsel* | wayyiqtol · niphal | אֲמַצְיָהוּ *Amaziah* | | | | | יִּשְׁלַח *he sent* | wayyiqtol · qal | אֲמַצְיָהוּ *Amaziah* | | | | | אמֹר | infinitive construct · qal | אֲמַצְיָהוּ *Amaziah* | | | | | לְכ *come* | imperative · qal | יוֹאָשׁ *Joash* | | | | | נִתְרָאֶה *let us look at one another* | cohortative · hithpael | אֲמַצְיָהוּ *Amaziah* + יוֹאָשׁ *Joash* | פָנִֽים *faces* | | | 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. [Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying: 'Come, let us look one another in the face.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.564/) **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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