--- title: Nehemiah 12:23 — The sons of Levi, heads of fathers' houses, were written in the book… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: The sons of Levi, heads of fathers' houses, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib. Nehemiah 12:23 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/NEH.12.23/) [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/) / [Nehemiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH/) / [chapter 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH/12/) / 12:23 # Nehemiah 12:23 נְחֶמְיָה **What happens:** write · **To what, where:** sons, book This is Nehemiah 12:23 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: what happens in the verse to sons, book, 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 13 chapters of Nehemiah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. בְּנֵ֤י לֵוִי֙ רָאשֵׁ֣י הָֽאָב֔וֹת כְּתוּבִ֕ים עַל־סֵ֖פֶר דִּבְרֵ֣י הַיָּמִ֑ים וְעַד־יְמֵ֖י יֽוֹחָנָ֥ן בֶּן־אֶלְיָשִֽׁיב׃ [The sons of Levi, heads of fathers' houses, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.381/) ## 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:NEH:349 # text = בְּנֵ֤י לֵוִי֙ רָאשֵׁ֣י הָֽאָב֔וֹת כְּתוּבִ֕ים עַל־סֵ֖פֶר דִּבְרֵ֣י הַיָּמִ֑ים וְעַד־יְמֵ֖י יֽוֹחָנָ֥ן בֶּן־אֶלְיָשִֽׁיב׃ # verse = NEH.12.23 1 בְּנֵ֤י בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ Gloss=the.descendants|Ref=NEH_12:23!1|MId=o160120230011|Strong=1121 2 לֵוִי֙ לֵוִי PROPN _ _ 1 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Levi|Ref=NEH_12:23!2|MId=o160120230021|Strong=3881 3 רָאשֵׁ֣י רֹאשׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 1 appos _ Gloss=the.heads|Ref=NEH_12:23!3|MId=o160120230031|Strong=7218 4-5 הָֽאָב֔וֹת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 הָֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 5 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=NEH_12:23!4|MId=o160120230041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 5 אָב֔וֹת אָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.fathers|Ref=NEH_12:23!4|MId=o160120230042|Strong=0001 6 כְּתוּבִ֕ים כָּתַב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 0 root _ Gloss=[were].recorded|Ref=NEH_12:23!5|MId=o160120230051|Strong=3789|Frame=A1:160120230011;|Type=participle_passive 7 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=NEH_12:23!6|MId=o160120230061|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 8 סֵ֖פֶר סֵפֶר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 obl _ Gloss=the.scroll|Ref=NEH_12:23!7|MId=o160120230071|Strong=5612 9 דִּבְרֵ֣י דָּבָר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 8 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.the.matters|Ref=NEH_12:23!8|MId=o160120230081|Strong=1697 10-11 הַיָּמִ֑ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 11 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=NEH_12:23!9|MId=o160120230091|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 11 יָּמִ֑ים יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.days|Ref=NEH_12:23!9|MId=o160120230092|Strong=3117 12-13 וְעַד־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_12:23!10|MId=o160120230101|Strong=2050b 13 עַד־ עַד ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=until|Ref=NEH_12:23!10|MId=o160120230102|Strong=5704 14 יְמֵ֖י יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 6 conj _ Gloss=the.days|Ref=NEH_12:23!11|MId=o160120230111|Strong=3117 15 יֽוֹחָנָ֥ן יוֹחָנָן PROPN _ _ 14 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Johanan|Ref=NEH_12:23!12|MId=o160120230121|Strong=3110 16 בֶּן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 appos _ Gloss=the.son|Ref=NEH_12:23!13|MId=o160120230131|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 17 אֶלְיָשִֽׁיב אֶלְיָשִׁיב PROPN _ _ 16 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Eliashib|Ref=NEH_12:23!14|MId=o160120230141|Strong=0475|SpaceAfter=No 18 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 17 punct _ Ref=NEH_12:23!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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | כְּתוּבִים *\[were\] recorded* | participle passive · qal | | בְּנֵי *the descendants* | | | 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. [The sons of Levi, heads of fathers' houses, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.381/) **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:NEH:349`. - ← previous: [Nehemiah 12:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.22/) - next →: [Nehemiah 12:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.24/) - ↑ back to [Nehemiah 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH/12/)