--- title: Nehemiah 12:45 — And they kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purificatio… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And they kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, and so did the singers and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son. Who acts: singers. Nehemiah 12:45 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.12.45/) [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/) / 12:45 # Nehemiah 12:45 נְחֶמְיָה **Who acts:** singers · **What happens:** keep, do, command · **To what, where:** ward, David · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Nehemiah 12:45 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 — singers — and what happens in the verse to ward, David, 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. וַֽיִּשְׁמְר֞וּ מִשְׁמֶ֤רֶת אֱלֹֽהֵיהֶם֙ וּמִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת הַֽטָּהֳרָ֔הוְהַמְשֹׁרְרִ֖ים וְהַשֹּׁעֲרִ֑ים כְּמִצְוַ֥ת דָּוִ֖יד שְׁלֹמֹ֥ה בְנֽוֹ׃ [And they kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, and so did the singers and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.404/) ## 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:371 # text = וַֽיִּשְׁמְר֞וּ מִשְׁמֶ֤רֶת אֱלֹֽהֵיהֶם֙ וּמִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת הַֽטָּהֳרָ֔הוְהַמְשֹׁרְרִ֖ים וְהַשֹּׁעֲרִ֑ים כְּמִצְוַ֥ת דָּוִ֖יד שְׁלֹמֹ֥ה בְנֽוֹ׃ # verse = NEH.12.45 1-2 וַֽיִּשְׁמְר֞וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַֽ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_12:45!1|MId=o160120450011|Strong=2050b 2 יִּשְׁמְר֞וּ שָׁמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.kept|Ref=NEH_12:45!1|MId=o160120450012|Strong=8104|Frame=A0:160120440232;160120440252;A1:160120450021;160120450042;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 מִשְׁמֶ֤רֶת מִשְׁמֶרֶת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 obj _ Gloss=the.service|Ref=NEH_12:45!2|MId=o160120450021|Strong=4931 4-5 אֱלֹֽהֵיהֶם֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 אֱלֹֽהֵי אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=their.God|Ref=NEH_12:45!3|MId=o160120450031|Strong=0430 5 הֶם֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ Gloss=their|Ref=NEH_12:45!3|MId=o160120450032|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 6-7 וּמִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_12:45!4|MId=o160120450041|Strong=2050b 7 מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת מִשְׁמֶרֶת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 3 conj _ Gloss=the.service|Ref=NEH_12:45!4|MId=o160120450042|Strong=4931 8-12 הַֽטָּהֳרָ֔הוְהַמְשֹׁרְרִ֖ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 הַֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 9 det _ Gloss=of.(the)|Ref=NEH_12:45!5|MId=o160120450051|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 9 טָּהֳרָ֔ה טׇהֳרָה NOUN _ Number=Sing 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=purification|Ref=NEH_12:45!5|MId=o160120450052|Strong=2893 10 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 12 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_12:45!6|MId=o160120450061|Strong=2050b 11 הַ הַ SCONJ _ _ 12 mark _ Gloss=the|Ref=NEH_12:45!6|MId=o160120450062|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 12 מְשֹׁרְרִ֖ים שִׁיר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=POLEL|Number=Plur 2 conj _ Gloss=singers|Ref=NEH_12:45!6|MId=o160120450063|Strong=7891|Type=participle_active 13-15 וְהַשֹּׁעֲרִ֑ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 15 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_12:45!7|MId=o160120450071|Strong=2050b 14 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 15 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NEH_12:45!7|MId=o160120450072|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 15 שֹּׁעֲרִ֑ים שֹׁועֵר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 12 conj _ Gloss=gatekeepers|Ref=NEH_12:45!7|MId=o160120450073|Strong=7778 16-17 כְּמִצְוַ֥ת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 כְּ כְּ ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=according|Ref=NEH_12:45!8|MId=o160120450081|Strong=3509a 17 מִצְוַ֥ת מִצְוָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 12 obl _ Gloss=to.the.command|Ref=NEH_12:45!8|MId=o160120450082|Strong=4687 18 דָּוִ֖יד דָּוִד PROPN _ _ 17 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.David|Ref=NEH_12:45!9|MId=o160120450091|Strong=1732 19 שְׁלֹמֹ֥ה שְׁלֹמֹה PROPN _ _ 18 conj _ Gloss=Solomon|Ref=NEH_12:45!10|MId=o160120450101|Strong=8010 20-21 בְנֽוֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 בְנ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 19 appos _ Gloss=son|Ref=NEH_12:45!11|MId=o160120450111|Strong=1121 21 ֽוֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=NEH_12:45!11|MId=o160120450112|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=NEH_12:45!11 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִּשְׁמְרוּ *they kept* | wayyiqtol · qal | | מִשְׁמֶרֶת *the service* + מִשְׁמֶרֶת *the service* | | | 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 they kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, and so did the singers and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.404/) **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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