--- title: Ecclesiastes 12:5 — Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors sh… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall drag itself along, and the caperberry shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets; Who acts: daughters, terror --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.5/) [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/) / [Ecclesiastes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/) / [chapter 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/12/) / 12:5 # Ecclesiastes 12:5 קֹהֶלֶת **Who acts:** daughters, terrors, almond tree, grasshopper, caperberry, man · **What happens:** be, blossom, drag, fail, go · **To what, where:** way, grasshopper, long home This is Ecclesiastes 12:5 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 — daughters, terrors, almond tree, grasshopper, caperberry, man — and what happens in the verse to way, grasshopper, long home, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum and 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 Ecclesiastes on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. גַּ֣ם מִגָּבֹ֤הַּ יִרָ֙אוּ֙ וְחַתְחַתִּ֣ים בַּדֶּ֔רֶךְ וְיָנֵ֤אץ הַשָּׁקֵד֙ וְיִסְתַּבֵּ֣ל הֶֽחָגָ֔ב וְתָפֵ֖ר הָֽאֲבִיּוֹנָ֑ה כִּֽי־הֹלֵ֤ךְ הָאָדָם֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית עוֹלָמ֔וֹ וְסָבְב֥וּ בָשּׁ֖וּקהַסֹּפְדִֽים׃ [Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall drag itself along, and the caperberry shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.223/) ## 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:ECC:212 # text = גַּ֣ם מִגָּבֹ֤הַּ יִרָ֙אוּ֙ וְחַתְחַתִּ֣ים בַּדֶּ֔רֶךְ וְיָנֵ֤אץ הַשָּׁקֵד֙ וְיִסְתַּבֵּ֣ל הֶֽחָגָ֔ב וְתָפֵ֖ר הָֽאֲבִיּוֹנָ֑ה כִּֽי־הֹלֵ֤ךְ הָאָדָם֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית עוֹלָמ֔וֹ וְסָבְב֥וּ בָשּׁ֖וּקהַסֹּפְדִֽים׃ # verse = ECC.12.5 1 גַּ֣ם גַּם ADV _ _ 3 advmod _ Gloss=also|Ref=ECC_12:5!1|MId=o210120050011|Strong=1571|Type=affirmation 2-3 מִגָּבֹ֤הַּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 3 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=ECC_12:5!2|MId=o210120050021|Strong=4480 3 גָּבֹ֤הַּ גָּבֹהַּ ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 obl _ Gloss=a.high.[place]|Ref=ECC_12:5!2|MId=o210120050022|Strong=1364|Type=adjective 4 יִרָ֙אוּ֙ יָרֵא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=people.will.be.afraid|Ref=ECC_12:5!3|MId=o210120050031|Strong=3372|Frame=A0:;|Type=yiqtol 5-6 וְחַתְחַתִּ֣ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_12:5!4|MId=o210120050041|Strong=2050b 6 חַתְחַתִּ֣ים חַתְחַתִּים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ Gloss=terrors|Ref=ECC_12:5!4|MId=o210120050042|Strong=2849 7-9 בַּדֶּ֔רֶךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 בַּ בְּ ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=[are].in|Ref=ECC_12:5!5|MId=o210120050051|Strong=0871a 8 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 9 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=ECC_12:5!5|MId=o210120050051ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 9 דֶּ֔רֶךְ דֶּרֶךְ NOUN _ Number=Sing 4 conj _ Gloss=way|Ref=ECC_12:5!5|MId=o210120050052|Strong=1870 10-11 וְיָנֵ֤אץ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 11 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_12:5!6|MId=o210120050061|Strong=2050b 11 יָנֵ֤אץ נצץ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 4 conj _ Gloss=it.will.bloom|Ref=ECC_12:5!6|MId=o210120050062|Strong=5340a|Frame=A0:210120050072;|Type=yiqtol 12-13 הַשָּׁקֵד֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 13 det _ Gloss=the.almond|Ref=ECC_12:5!7|MId=o210120050071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 13 שָּׁקֵד֙ שָׁקֵד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Gloss=tree|Ref=ECC_12:5!7|MId=o210120050072|Strong=8247 14-15 וְיִסְתַּבֵּ֣ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 15 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_12:5!8|MId=o210120050081|Strong=2050b 15 יִסְתַּבֵּ֣ל סָבַל VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HITHPAEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 4 conj _ Gloss=it.will.drag.itself.along|Ref=ECC_12:5!8|MId=o210120050082|Strong=5445|Frame=A0:210120050092;|Type=yiqtol 16-17 הֶֽחָגָ֔ב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 הֶֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 17 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=ECC_12:5!9|MId=o210120050091|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 17 חָגָ֔ב חָגָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Gloss=grasshopper|Ref=ECC_12:5!9|MId=o210120050092|Strong=2284 18-19 וְתָפֵ֖ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_12:5!10|MId=o210120050101|Strong=2050b 19 תָפֵ֖ר פָּרַר VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 4 conj _ Gloss=it.will.fail|Ref=ECC_12:5!10|MId=o210120050102|Strong=6565|Frame=A0:210120050112;|Type=yiqtol 20-21 הָֽאֲבִיּוֹנָ֑ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 הָֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 21 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=ECC_12:5!11|MId=o210120050111|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 21 אֲבִיּוֹנָ֑ה אֲבִיּוֹנָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Gloss=caper-berry|Ref=ECC_12:5!11|MId=o210120050112|Strong=0035 22 כִּֽי־ כִּי SCONJ _ _ 23 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=ECC_12:5!12|MId=o210120050121|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No 23 הֹלֵ֤ךְ הָלַךְ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 4 advcl _ Gloss=[is].going|Ref=ECC_12:5!13|MId=o210120050131|Strong=1980|Frame=A0:210120050142;|Type=participle_active 24-25 הָאָדָם֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 24 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 25 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=ECC_12:5!14|MId=o210120050141|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 25 אָדָם֙ אָדָם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Gloss=humankind|Ref=ECC_12:5!14|MId=o210120050142|Strong=0120 26 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 27 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=ECC_12:5!15|MId=o210120050151|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 27 בֵּ֣ית בַּיִת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 23 obl _ Gloss=the.house|Ref=ECC_12:5!16|MId=o210120050161|Strong=1004 28-29 עוֹלָמ֔וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 28 עוֹלָמ עוֹלָם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 27 compound:smixut _ Gloss=its.perpetuity|Ref=ECC_12:5!17|MId=o210120050171|Strong=5769 29 ֔וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=ECC_12:5!17|MId=o210120050172|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 30-31 וְסָבְב֥וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 30 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 31 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_12:5!18|MId=o210120050181|Strong=2050b 31 סָבְב֥וּ סָבַב VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 4 conj _ Gloss=they.will.go.about|Ref=ECC_12:5!18|MId=o210120050182|Strong=5437|Frame=A0:210120050202;|Type=weqatal 32-36 בָשּׁ֖וּקהַסֹּפְדִֽים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 32 בָ בְּ ADP _ _ 34 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=ECC_12:5!19|MId=o210120050191|Strong=0871a 33 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 34 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=ECC_12:5!19|MId=o210120050191ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 34 שּׁ֖וּק שׁוּק NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 31 obl _ Gloss=street|Ref=ECC_12:5!19|MId=o210120050192|Strong=7784 35 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 36 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=ECC_12:5!20|MId=o210120050201|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 36 סֹּפְדִֽים סָפַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ Gloss=mourners|Ref=ECC_12:5!20|MId=o210120050202|Strong=5594|Type=participle_active 37 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 36 punct _ Ref=ECC_12:5!20 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִרָאוּ *people will be afraid* | yiqtol · qal | | | | | | יָנֵאץ *it will bloom* | yiqtol · hiphil | שָּׁקֵד *tree* | | | | | יִסְתַּבֵּל *it will drag itself along* | yiqtol · hithpael | חָגָב *grasshopper* | | | | | תָפֵר *it will fail* | yiqtol · hiphil | אֲבִיּוֹנָה *caper-berry* | | | | | הֹלֵךְ *\[is\] going* | participle active · qal | אָדָם *humankind* | | | | | סָבְבוּ *they will go about* | weqatal · qal | סֹּפְדִֽים *mourners* | | | | 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. ## The Targum {#onkelos} אַף מִן עוֹבָדִין דַּהֲווֹ מִן קַדְמַת דְּנָא תְּהֵי דָּחִיל לְמִדְכַּר יָתְהוֹן וְגַּבְשׁוּשִׁיתָא קַלִּילָא מְתִילָא בְּאַנְפֵּי נַפְשָׁךְ לְטוּר רָם בְּעִדָּן מַהַלְכָךְ בְּאוֹרְחָא וְתֵפִיץ רֵישׁ שְׁזַרְתָךְ מִן כְּחִישׁוּתָא כְּשִׁגְדָּא וְיִתְנַפְּחוּן אִסְתַּווְרֵי רִגְלָךְ וְתִתְמְנַע מַשְׁכְּנָא אֲרוּם אִתְפְּנֵי אֱנָשָׁא לִמְהָךְ לְבֵית קְבוּרְתֵיהּ וִיסְחֲרוּן מַלְאֲכַיָּא תָּבְעֵי דִּינָךְ כְּסָפְדַיָּא דִּמְסַחֲרִין בְּשׁוּקָא לְמִכְתַּב דִּין חוּשְׁבָּנָךְ: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## 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. [Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall drag itself along, and the caperberry shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.223/) **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:ECC:212`. - ← previous: [Ecclesiastes 12:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.4/) - next →: [Ecclesiastes 12:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.6/) - ↑ back to [Ecclesiastes 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/12/)