--- title: Daniel 5:27 — TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. · Aramaic, tree and pragmatics description: TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Daniel 5:27 in Biblical Aramaic 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/DAN.5.27/) [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/) / [Daniel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN/) / [chapter 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN/5/) / 5:27 # Daniel 5:27 דָּנִיֵּאל **What happens:** weigh, find · **To what, where:** Thou, balances This is Daniel 5:27 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Biblical Aramaic as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Aramaic — and its pragmatics: what happens in the verse to Thou, balances, 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 12 chapters of Daniel on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. תְּקֵ֑ל תְּקִ֥ילְתָּה בְמֹֽאזַנְיָ֖א וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֥חַתְּ חַסִּֽיר׃ [TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.173/) ## The tree {#tree} This verse is in Biblical Aramaic, as the book has it here; its tree is MACULA's Aramaic tree. Right to left, as it 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-arc:DAN:139 # text = תְּקֵ֑ל תְּקִ֥ילְתָּה בְמֹֽאזַנְיָ֖א וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֥חַתְּ חַסִּֽיר׃ # verse = DAN.5.27 1 תְּקֵ֑ל תְּקֵל NOUN _ _ 2 dislocated _ Gloss=teqel|Ref=DAN_5:27!1|MId=o270050270011|Strong=8625a|Lang=arc|Type=unknown:_x 2 תְּקִ֥ילְתָּה תְּקַל VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PEIL|Number=Sing|Person=2 0 root _ Gloss=you.have.been.weighed|Ref=DAN_5:27!2|MId=o270050270021|Strong=8625|Lang=arc|Frame=A1:270050220031;|Type=yiqtol 3-5 בְמֹֽאזַנְיָ֖א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 בְ בְּ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=DAN_5:27!3|MId=o270050270031|Strong=0871b|Lang=arc 4 מֹֽאזַנְי מֹאזְנֵא NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 obl _ Gloss=the|Ref=DAN_5:27!3|MId=o270050270032|Strong=3977|Lang=arc 5 ָ֖א א DET _ PronType=Art 4 det _ Gloss=scales|Ref=DAN_5:27!3|MId=o270050270033|Strong=0001b|Lang=arc|Type=definite_article 6-7 וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֥חַתְּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=DAN_5:27!4|MId=o270050270041|Strong=2050d|Lang=arc 7 הִשְׁתְּכַ֥חַתְּ שְׁכַח VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HITHPEEL|Number=Sing|Person=2 2 conj _ Gloss=you.have.been.found|Ref=DAN_5:27!4|MId=o270050270042|Strong=7912|Lang=arc|Frame=A1:270050220031;|Type=qatal 8 חַסִּֽיר חַסִּיר ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 obj _ Gloss=lacking|Ref=DAN_5:27!5|MId=o270050270051|Strong=2627|Lang=arc|Type=adjective|SpaceAfter=No 9 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 8 punct _ Ref=DAN_5:27!5 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | תְּקִילְתָּה *you have been weighed* | yiqtol · peil | | | | | | הִשְׁתְּכַחַתְּ *you have been found* | qatal · hithpeel | | | | | 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. [TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.173/) **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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