--- title: Ezra 6:16 — And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the res… · Aramaic, tree and pragmatics description: And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy. Who acts: children. Ezra 6:16 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/EZR.6.16/) [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/) / [Ezra](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR/) / [chapter 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR/6/) / 6:16 # Ezra 6:16 עֶזְרָא **Who acts:** children · **What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** dedication This is Ezra 6:16 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: who acts — children — and what happens in the verse to dedication, 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 10 chapters of Ezra on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וַעֲבַ֣דוּ בְנֵֽי־יִ֠שְׂרָאֵל כָּהֲנַיָּ֨א וְלֵוָיֵ֜א וּשְׁאָ֣ר בְּנֵי־גָלוּתָ֗א חֲנֻכַּ֛ת בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֥א דְנָ֖ה בְּחֶדְוָֽה׃ [And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.154/) ## 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:EZR:49 # text = וַעֲבַ֣דוּ בְנֵֽי־יִ֠שְׂרָאֵל כָּהֲנַיָּ֨א וְלֵוָיֵ֜א וּשְׁאָ֣ר בְּנֵי־גָלוּתָ֗א חֲנֻכַּ֛ת בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֥א דְנָ֖ה בְּחֶדְוָֽה׃ # verse = EZR.6.16 1-2 וַעֲבַ֣דוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EZR_6:16!1|MId=o150060160011|Strong=2050d|Lang=arc 2 עֲבַ֣דוּ עֲבַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PEAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.made|Ref=EZR_6:16!1|MId=o150060160012|Strong=5648|Lang=arc|Frame=A0:150060160021;A1:150060160091;|Type=qatal 3 בְנֵֽי־ בַּר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Gloss=the.people|Ref=EZR_6:16!2|MId=o150060160021|Strong=1123|Lang=arc|SpaceAfter=No 4 יִ֠שְׂרָאֵל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Israel|Ref=EZR_6:16!3|MId=o150060160031|Strong=3479|Lang=arc 5-6 כָּהֲנַיָּ֨א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 כָּהֲנַיּ כָּהֵן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 3 appos _ Gloss=the|Ref=EZR_6:16!4|MId=o150060160041|Strong=3549|Lang=arc 6 ָ֨א א DET _ PronType=Art 5 det _ Gloss=priests|Ref=EZR_6:16!4|MId=o150060160042|Strong=0001b|Lang=arc|Type=definite_article 7-9 וְלֵוָיֵ֜א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 8 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EZR_6:16!5|MId=o150060160051|Strong=2050d|Lang=arc 8 לֵוָי לֵוָי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 5 conj _ Gloss=the|Ref=EZR_6:16!5|MId=o150060160052|Strong=3879|Lang=arc|Type=gentilic 9 ֵ֜א א DET _ PronType=Art 8 det _ Gloss=Levites|Ref=EZR_6:16!5|MId=o150060160053|Strong=0001b|Lang=arc|Type=definite_article 10-11 וּשְׁאָ֣ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 11 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EZR_6:16!6|MId=o150060160061|Strong=2050d|Lang=arc 11 שְׁאָ֣ר שְׁאָר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 conj _ Gloss=the.rest|Ref=EZR_6:16!6|MId=o150060160062|Strong=7606|Lang=arc 12 בְּנֵי־ בַּר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 11 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.the.people|Ref=EZR_6:16!7|MId=o150060160071|Strong=1123|Lang=arc|SpaceAfter=No 13-14 גָלוּתָ֗א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 גָלוּת גָּלוּ NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 12 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of|Ref=EZR_6:16!8|MId=o150060160081|Strong=1547|Lang=arc 14 ָ֗א א DET _ PronType=Art 13 det _ Gloss=the.exile|Ref=EZR_6:16!8|MId=o150060160082|Strong=0001b|Lang=arc|Type=definite_article 15 חֲנֻכַּ֛ת חֲנֻכָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 obj _ Gloss=the.dedication|Ref=EZR_6:16!9|MId=o150060160091|Strong=2597|Lang=arc 16 בֵּית־ בַּיִת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.the.house|Ref=EZR_6:16!10|MId=o150060160101|Strong=1005|Lang=arc|SpaceAfter=No 17-18 אֱלָהָ֥א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 אֱלָה אֱלָהּ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.(the)|Ref=EZR_6:16!11|MId=o150060160111|Strong=0426|Lang=arc 18 ָ֥א א DET _ PronType=Art 17 det _ Gloss=God|Ref=EZR_6:16!11|MId=o150060160112|Strong=0001b|Lang=arc|Type=definite_article 19 דְנָ֖ה דְּנָה DET _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ Gloss=this|Ref=EZR_6:16!12|MId=o150060160121|Strong=1836|Lang=arc|Type=demonstrative 20-21 בְּחֶדְוָֽה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 21 case _ Gloss=with|Ref=EZR_6:16!13|MId=o150060160131|Strong=0871b|Lang=arc 21 חֶדְוָֽה חֶדְוָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 obl _ Gloss=joy|Ref=EZR_6:16!13|MId=o150060160132|Strong=2305|Lang=arc 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=EZR_6:16!13 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | עֲבַדוּ *they made* | qatal · peal | בְנֵֽי־ *the people* | חֲנֻכַּת *the dedication* | | | 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. [And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.154/) **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-arc:EZR:49`. - ← previous: [Ezra 6:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.15/) - next →: [Ezra 6:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.17/) - ↑ back to [Ezra 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR/6/)