--- title: Nehemiah 12:30 — And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purifi… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall. Who acts: priests. Nehemiah 12:30 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.12.30/) [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/) / 12:30 # Nehemiah 12:30 נְחֶמְיָה **Who acts:** priests · **What happens:** purify · **To what, where:** priests, people This is Nehemiah 12:30 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 — priests — and what happens in the verse to priests, people, 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. וַיִּֽטַּהֲר֔וּ הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים וְהַלְוִיִּ֑ם וַֽיְטַהֲרוּ֙ אֶת־הָעָ֔ם וְאֶת־הַשְּׁעָרִ֖ים וְאֶֽת־הַחוֹמָֽה׃ [And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.388/) ## 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:356 # text = וַיִּֽטַּהֲר֔וּ הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים וְהַלְוִיִּ֑ם וַֽיְטַהֲרוּ֙ אֶת־הָעָ֔ם וְאֶת־הַשְּׁעָרִ֖ים וְאֶֽת־הַחוֹמָֽה׃ # verse = NEH.12.30 1-2 וַיִּֽטַּהֲר֔וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_12:30!1|MId=o160120300011|Strong=2050b 2 יִּֽטַּהֲר֔וּ טָהֵר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HITHPAEL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.purified.themselves|Ref=NEH_12:30!1|MId=o160120300012|Strong=2891|Frame=A0:160120300022;160120300033;|Type=wayyiqtol 3-4 הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 4 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NEH_12:30!2|MId=o160120300021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 4 כֹּהֲנִ֖ים כֹּהֵן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Gloss=priests|Ref=NEH_12:30!2|MId=o160120300022|Strong=3548 5-7 וְהַלְוִיִּ֑ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_12:30!3|MId=o160120300031|Strong=2050b 6 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 7 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NEH_12:30!3|MId=o160120300032|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 7 לְוִיִּ֑ם לֵוִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 4 conj _ Gloss=Levites|Ref=NEH_12:30!3|MId=o160120300033|Strong=3881|Type=gentilic 8-9 וַֽיְטַהֲרוּ֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וַֽ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_12:30!4|MId=o160120300041|Strong=2050b 9 יְטַהֲרוּ֙ טָהֵר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.purified|Ref=NEH_12:30!4|MId=o160120300042|Strong=2891|Frame=A0:160120300022;160120300033;A1:160120300062;160120300082;160120300102;|Type=wayyiqtol 10 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=NEH_12:30!5|MId=o160120300051|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 11-12 הָעָ֔ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 12 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NEH_12:30!6|MId=o160120300061|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 12 עָ֔ם עַם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 obj _ Gloss=people|Ref=NEH_12:30!6|MId=o160120300062|Strong=5971 13-14 וְאֶת־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_12:30!7|MId=o160120300071|Strong=2050b 14 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=NEH_12:30!7|MId=o160120300072|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker 15-16 הַשְּׁעָרִ֖ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 16 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NEH_12:30!8|MId=o160120300081|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 16 שְּׁעָרִ֖ים שַׁעַר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 12 conj _ Gloss=gates|Ref=NEH_12:30!8|MId=o160120300082|Strong=8179 17-18 וְאֶֽת־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 20 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_12:30!9|MId=o160120300091|Strong=2050b 18 אֶֽת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=NEH_12:30!9|MId=o160120300092|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker 19-20 הַחוֹמָֽה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 20 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NEH_12:30!10|MId=o160120300101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 20 חוֹמָֽה חוֹמָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 12 conj _ Gloss=wall|Ref=NEH_12:30!10|MId=o160120300102|Strong=2346 21 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 20 punct _ Ref=NEH_12:30!10 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִּֽטַּהֲרוּ *they purified themselves* | wayyiqtol · hithpael | כֹּהֲנִים *priests* + לְוִיִּם *Levites* | | | | | יְטַהֲרוּ *they purified* | wayyiqtol · piel | כֹּהֲנִים *priests* + לְוִיִּם *Levites* | עָם *people* + שְּׁעָרִים *gates* + חוֹמָֽה *wall* | | | 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 priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.388/) **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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