--- title: 2 Chronicles 5:8 — For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark,… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above. Who acts: cherubim. 2 Chronicles 5:8 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.5.8/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/5/) / 5:8 # 2 Chronicles 5:8 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים ב **Who acts:** cherubim · **What happens:** spread, cover · **To what, where:** wings, place, ark This is 2 Chronicles 5:8 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 — cherubim — and what happens in the verse to wings, place, ark, 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. וַיִּהְי֤וּ הַכְּרוּבִים֙ פֹּרְשִׂ֣ים כְּנָפַ֔יִם עַל־מְק֖וֹם הָאָר֑וֹן וַיְכַסּ֧וּ הַכְּרוּבִ֛ים עַל־הָאָר֥וֹן וְעַל־בַּדָּ֖יו מִלְמָֽעְלָה׃ [For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.89/) ## 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:81 # text = וַיִּהְי֤וּ הַכְּרוּבִים֙ פֹּרְשִׂ֣ים כְּנָפַ֔יִם עַל־מְק֖וֹם הָאָר֑וֹן וַיְכַסּ֧וּ הַכְּרוּבִ֛ים עַל־הָאָר֥וֹן וְעַל־בַּדָּ֖יו מִלְמָֽעְלָה׃ # verse = 2CH.5.8 1-2 וַיִּהְי֤וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 5 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_5:8!1|MId=o140050080011|Strong=2050b 2 יִּהְי֤וּ הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 5 cop _ Gloss=they.were|Ref=2CH_5:8!1|MId=o140050080012|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:140050080022;|Type=wayyiqtol 3-4 הַכְּרוּבִים֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 4 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=2CH_5:8!2|MId=o140050080021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 4 כְּרוּבִים֙ כְּרוּב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ Gloss=cherubim|Ref=2CH_5:8!2|MId=o140050080022|Strong=3742 5 פֹּרְשִׂ֣ים פָּרַשׂ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 0 root _ Gloss=spreading.out|Ref=2CH_5:8!3|MId=o140050080031|Strong=6566|Frame=A0:140050080022;A1:140050080041;|Type=participle_active 6 כְּנָפַ֔יִם כָּנָף NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Dual 5 obj _ Gloss=wings|Ref=2CH_5:8!4|MId=o140050080041|Strong=3671 7 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=over|Ref=2CH_5:8!5|MId=o140050080051|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 8 מְק֖וֹם מָקוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 obl _ Gloss=the.place|Ref=2CH_5:8!6|MId=o140050080061|Strong=4725 9-10 הָאָר֑וֹן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 10 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=2CH_5:8!7|MId=o140050080071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 10 אָר֑וֹן אֲרוֹן NOUN _ Number=Sing 8 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.ark|Ref=2CH_5:8!7|MId=o140050080072|Strong=0727 11-12 וַיְכַסּ֧וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 12 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_5:8!8|MId=o140050080081|Strong=2050b 12 יְכַסּ֧וּ כָּסָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur|Person=3 5 conj _ Gloss=they.covered|Ref=2CH_5:8!8|MId=o140050080082|Strong=3680|Frame=A0:140050080092;|Type=wayyiqtol 13-14 הַכְּרוּבִ֛ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 14 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=2CH_5:8!9|MId=o140050080091|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 14 כְּרוּבִ֛ים כְּרוּב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ Gloss=cherubim|Ref=2CH_5:8!9|MId=o140050080092|Strong=3742 15 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=over|Ref=2CH_5:8!10|MId=o140050080101|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 16-17 הָאָר֥וֹן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 17 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=2CH_5:8!11|MId=o140050080111|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 17 אָר֥וֹן אֲרוֹן NOUN _ Number=Sing 12 obl _ Gloss=ark|Ref=2CH_5:8!11|MId=o140050080112|Strong=0727 18-19 וְעַל־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 20 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2CH_5:8!12|MId=o140050080121|Strong=2050b 19 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=over|Ref=2CH_5:8!12|MId=o140050080122|Strong=5921 20-21 בַּדָּ֖יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 בַּדָּ֖י בַּד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 17 conj _ Gloss=poles|Ref=2CH_5:8!13|MId=o140050080131|Strong=0905a 21 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ Gloss=its|Ref=2CH_5:8!13|MId=o140050080132|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 22-25 מִלְמָֽעְלָה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 24 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=2CH_5:8!14|MId=o140050080141|Strong=4480 23 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 24 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=2CH_5:8!14|MId=o140050080142|Strong=3807a 24 מָֽעְל מַעַל ADV _ _ 12 obl _ Gloss=above|Ref=2CH_5:8!14|MId=o140050080143|Strong=4605 25 ָה ה X _ _ 24 nmod _ Gloss=|Ref=2CH_5:8!14|MId=o140050080144|Strong=1886c|Type=directional_he 26 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 25 punct _ Ref=2CH_5:8!14 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִּהְיוּ *they were* | wayyiqtol · qal | כְּרוּבִים *cherubim* | | | | | פֹּרְשִׂים *spreading out* | participle active · qal | כְּרוּבִים *cherubim* | כְּנָפַיִם *wings* | | | | יְכַסּוּ *they covered* | wayyiqtol · piel | כְּרוּבִים *cherubim* | | | | 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. [For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.89/) **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). Hebrew sentence `wlc:2CH:81`. - ← previous: [2 Chronicles 5:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.5.7/) - next →: [2 Chronicles 5:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.5.9/) - ↑ back to [2 Chronicles 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH/5/)