--- title: Esther 4:13 — Then Mordecai bade them to return answer unto Esther: 'Think not wit… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Then Mordecai bade them to return answer unto Esther: 'Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews. Who acts: Mordecai, thou. Esther 4:13 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, 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/EST.4.13/) [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/) / [Esther](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST/) / [chapter 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST/4/) / 4:13 # Esther 4:13 אֶסְתֵּר **Who acts:** Mordecai, thou · **What happens:** bade, return, not think, escape · **To what, where:** servants, answer, house · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Esther 4:13 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 — Mordecai, thou — and what happens in the verse to servants, answer, house, 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 10 chapters of Esther on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וַיֹּ֥אמֶר מָרְדֳּכַ֖י לְהָשִׁ֣יב אֶל־אֶסְתֵּ֑ר אַל־תְּדַמִּ֣י בְנַפְשֵׁ֔ךְ לְהִמָּלֵ֥ט בֵּית־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ מִכָּל־הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃ [Then Mordecai bade them to return answer unto Esther: 'Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.75/) ## 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:EST:72 # text = וַיֹּ֥אמֶר מָרְדֳּכַ֖י לְהָשִׁ֣יב אֶל־אֶסְתֵּ֑ר אַל־תְּדַמִּ֣י בְנַפְשֵׁ֔ךְ לְהִמָּלֵ֥ט בֵּית־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ מִכָּל־הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃ # verse = EST.4.13 1-2 וַיֹּ֥אמֶר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EST_4:13!1|MId=o170040130011|Strong=2050b 2 יֹּ֥אמֶר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.said|Ref=EST_4:13!1|MId=o170040130012|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:170040130021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 מָרְדֳּכַ֖י מׇרְדֳּכַי PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Mordecai|Ref=EST_4:13!2|MId=o170040130021|Strong=4782 4-5 לְהָשִׁ֣יב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=EST_4:13!3|MId=o170040130031|Strong=3807a 5 הָשִׁ֣יב שׁוּב VERB _ HebBinyan=HIPHIL 2 advcl _ Gloss=bring.back|Ref=EST_4:13!3|MId=o170040130032|Strong=7725|Frame=A0:;|Type=infinitive_construct 6 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=EST_4:13!4|MId=o170040130041|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 7 אֶסְתֵּ֑ר אֶסְתֵּר PROPN _ _ 5 obl _ Gloss=Esther|Ref=EST_4:13!5|MId=o170040130051|Strong=0635 8 אַל־ אַל ADV _ _ 9 advmod _ Gloss=do.not|Ref=EST_4:13!6|MId=o170040130061|Strong=0408|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 9 תְּדַמִּ֣י דָּמָה VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=2 2 ccomp _ Gloss=imagine|Ref=EST_4:13!7|MId=o170040130071|Strong=1819|Frame=A0:170040130051;|Type=jussive 10-12 בְנַפְשֵׁ֔ךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 בְ בְּ ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=EST_4:13!8|MId=o170040130081|Strong=0871a 11 נַפְשׁ נֶפֶשׁ NOUN _ Number=Sing 9 obl _ Gloss=self|Ref=EST_4:13!8|MId=o170040130082|Strong=5315 12 ֵ֔ךְ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=EST_4:13!8|MId=o170040130083|Strong=3509c|Type=pronominal 13-14 לְהִמָּלֵ֥ט _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=EST_4:13!9|MId=o170040130091|Strong=3807a 14 הִמָּלֵ֥ט מָלַט VERB _ HebBinyan=NIPHAL 9 advcl _ Gloss=escape|Ref=EST_4:13!9|MId=o170040130092|Strong=4422|Frame=A0:170040130051;|Type=infinitive_construct 15 בֵּית־ בַּיִת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 14 obl _ Gloss=the.house|Ref=EST_4:13!10|MId=o170040130101|Strong=1004|SpaceAfter=No 16-17 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 17 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=EST_4:13!11|MId=o170040130111|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 17 מֶּ֖לֶךְ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.king|Ref=EST_4:13!11|MId=o170040130112|Strong=4428 18-19 מִכָּל־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=EST_4:13!12|MId=o170040130121|Strong=4480 19 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 14 obl _ Gloss=all|Ref=EST_4:13!12|MId=o170040130122|Strong=3605 20-21 הַיְּהוּדִֽים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 21 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=EST_4:13!13|MId=o170040130131|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 21 יְּהוּדִֽים יְהוּדִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 19 compound:smixut _ Gloss=Jews|Ref=EST_4:13!13|MId=o170040130132|Strong=3064|Type=gentilic 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=EST_4:13!13 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: yes - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | מָרְדֳּכַי *Mordecai* | | | | | הָשִׁיב *bring back* | infinitive construct · hiphil | | | | | | **not** תְּדַמִּי *imagine* | jussive · piel | אֶסְתֵּר *Esther* | | | | | הִמָּלֵט *escape* | infinitive construct · niphal | אֶסְתֵּר *Esther* | | | | 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} וַאֲמַר מָרְדְכַי לְמִיכָאֵל וּלְגַבְרִיאֵל לַאֲתָבָא לְוַת אֶסְתֵּר כִּדְנָא תֵמְרוּן לָהּ לָא תַחְשְׁבִי בְּנַפְשַׁיְיכִי לִמְהַךְ לְאִשְׁתֵּיזְבָא בְּבֵית מַלְכָּא מִן כָּל יְהוּדָאֵי: 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. [Then Mordecai bade them to return answer unto Esther: 'Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.75/) **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:EST:72`. - ← previous: [Esther 4:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.4.12/) - next →: [Esther 4:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.4.14/) - ↑ back to [Esther 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST/4/)