--- title: Nehemiah 13:27 — Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to break f… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to break faith with our God in marrying foreign women?' Who acts: we. Nehemiah 13:27 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.13.27/) [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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH/13/) / 13:27 # Nehemiah 13:27 נְחֶמְיָה **Who acts:** we · **What happens:** hearken, do, break, marry · **To what, where:** great evil, faith, foreign women This is Nehemiah 13:27 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 — we — and what happens in the verse to great evil, faith, foreign women, 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. וְלָכֶ֣ם הֲנִשְׁמַ֗ע לַעֲשֹׂת֙ אֵ֣ת כָּל־הָרָעָ֤ה הַגְּדוֹלָה֙ הַזֹּ֔את לִמְעֹ֖ל בֵּֽאלֹהֵ֑ינוּ לְהֹשִׁ֖יב נָשִׁ֥ים נָכְרִיּֽוֹת׃ [Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to break faith with our God in marrying foreign women?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.434/) ## 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:400 # text = וְלָכֶ֣ם הֲנִשְׁמַ֗ע לַעֲשֹׂת֙ אֵ֣ת כָּל־הָרָעָ֤ה הַגְּדוֹלָה֙ הַזֹּ֔את לִמְעֹ֖ל בֵּֽאלֹהֵ֑ינוּ לְהֹשִׁ֖יב נָשִׁ֥ים נָכְרִיּֽוֹת׃ # verse = NEH.13.27 1-3 וְלָכֶ֣ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 5 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_13:27!1|MId=o160130270011|Strong=2050b 2 ל לְ ADP _ _ 3 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NEH_13:27!1|MId=o160130270012|Strong=3807a 3 ָכֶ֣ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ Gloss=you|Ref=NEH_13:27!1|MId=o160130270013|Strong=3641b|Type=pronominal 4-5 הֲנִשְׁמַ֗ע _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 הֲ הֲ PART _ _ 5 advmod _ Gloss=will|Ref=NEH_13:27!2|MId=o160130270021|Strong=1886b|Type=interrogative 5 נִשְׁמַ֗ע שָׁמַע VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=we.listen?|Ref=NEH_13:27!2|MId=o160130270022|Strong=8085|Frame=A1:160120470061;160130230062;|Type=qatal 6-7 לַעֲשֹׂת֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NEH_13:27!3|MId=o160130270031|Strong=3807a 7 עֲשֹׂת֙ עָשָׂה VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 5 advcl _ Gloss=do|Ref=NEH_13:27!3|MId=o160130270032|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:160130250061;A1:160130270062;|Type=infinitive_construct 8 אֵ֣ת אֵת ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=NEH_13:27!4|MId=o160130270041|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker 9 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 obj _ Gloss=all|Ref=NEH_13:27!5|MId=o160130270051|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No 10-11 הָרָעָ֤ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 11 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NEH_13:27!6|MId=o160130270061|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 11 רָעָ֤ה רָעָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=evil|Ref=NEH_13:27!6|MId=o160130270062|Strong=7451b 12-13 הַגְּדוֹלָה֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 13 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=NEH_13:27!7|MId=o160130270071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 13 גְּדוֹלָה֙ גָּדוֹל ADJ _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 11 amod _ Gloss=great|Ref=NEH_13:27!7|MId=o160130270072|Strong=1419|Type=adjective 14-15 הַזֹּ֔את _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 15 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=NEH_13:27!8|MId=o160130270081|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 15 זֹּ֔את זֹאת DET _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ Gloss=this|Ref=NEH_13:27!8|MId=o160130270082|Strong=2063|Type=demonstrative 16-17 לִמְעֹ֖ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NEH_13:27!9|MId=o160130270091|Strong=3807a 17 מְעֹ֖ל מָעַל VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 7 advcl _ Gloss=act.unfaithfully|Ref=NEH_13:27!9|MId=o160130270092|Strong=4603|Frame=A0:160130250061;|Type=infinitive_construct 18-20 בֵּֽאלֹהֵ֑ינוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 בֵּֽ בְּ ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=against|Ref=NEH_13:27!10|MId=o160130270101|Strong=0871a 19 אלֹהֵ֑י אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 17 obl _ Gloss=God|Ref=NEH_13:27!10|MId=o160130270102|Strong=0430 20 נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ Gloss=our|Ref=NEH_13:27!10|MId=o160130270103|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 21-22 לְהֹשִׁ֖יב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 22 case _ Gloss=by|Ref=NEH_13:27!11|MId=o160130270111|Strong=3807a 22 הֹשִׁ֖יב יָשַׁב VERB _ HebBinyan=HIPHIL 17 advcl _ Gloss=marrying|Ref=NEH_13:27!11|MId=o160130270112|Strong=3427|Frame=AA:160130250061;A0:160130270121;|Type=infinitive_construct 23 נָשִׁ֥ים אִשָּׁה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 22 obj _ Gloss=wives|Ref=NEH_13:27!12|MId=o160130270121|Strong=0802 24 נָכְרִיּֽוֹת נׇכְרִי ADJ _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 23 amod _ Gloss=foreign|Ref=NEH_13:27!13|MId=o160130270131|Strong=5237|Type=adjective|SpaceAfter=No 25 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 24 punct _ Ref=NEH_13:27!13 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | נִשְׁמַע *we listen?* | qatal · niphal | | | | | | עֲשֹׂת *do* | infinitive construct · qal | | רָעָה *evil* | | | | מְעֹל *act unfaithfully* | infinitive construct · qal | | | | | | הֹשִׁיב *marrying* | infinitive construct · hiphil | נָשִׁים *wives* | | | | 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. [Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to break faith with our God in marrying foreign women?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.434/) **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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