--- title: Nehemiah 13:29 — Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, a… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites. Who acts: you, women, priesthood. Nehemiah 13:29 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.13.29/) [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/) / 13:29 # Nehemiah 13:29 נְחֶמְיָה **Who acts:** you, women, priesthood · **What happens:** remember, defile, covenant · **To what, where:** women, priesthood This is Nehemiah 13:29 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 — you, women, priesthood — and what happens in the verse to women, priesthood, 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. זָכְרָ֥ה לָהֶ֖ם אֱלֹהָ֑י עַ֚ל גָּאֳלֵ֣י הַכְּהֻנָּ֔ה וּבְרִ֥ית הַכְּהֻנָּ֖ה וְהַלְוִיִּֽם׃ [Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.436/) ## 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:402 # text = זָכְרָ֥ה לָהֶ֖ם אֱלֹהָ֑י עַ֚ל גָּאֳלֵ֣י הַכְּהֻנָּ֔ה וּבְרִ֥ית הַכְּהֻנָּ֖ה וְהַלְוִיִּֽם׃ # verse = NEH.13.29 1-2 זָכְרָ֥ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 זָכְר זָכַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 0 root _ Gloss=remember|Ref=NEH_13:29!1|MId=o160130290011|Strong=2142|Frame=A0:160130290031;|Type=imperative 2 ָ֥ה ה X _ _ 1 nmod _ Gloss=|Ref=NEH_13:29!1|MId=o160130290012|Strong=1886j|Type=paragogic_he 3-4 לָהֶ֖ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 ל לְ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NEH_13:29!2|MId=o160130290021|Strong=3807a 4 ָהֶ֖ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ Gloss=them|Ref=NEH_13:29!2|MId=o160130290022|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 5-6 אֱלֹהָ֑י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 אֱלֹה אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 1 dislocated _ Gloss=my.God|Ref=NEH_13:29!3|MId=o160130290031|Strong=0430 6 ָ֑י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=NEH_13:29!3|MId=o160130290032|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 7 עַ֚ל עַל ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=NEH_13:29!4|MId=o160130290041|Strong=5921 8 גָּאֳלֵ֣י גֹּאֲלִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 1 obl _ Gloss=the.defilement(s)|Ref=NEH_13:29!5|MId=o160130290051|Strong=1352 9-10 הַכְּהֻנָּ֔ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 10 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=NEH_13:29!6|MId=o160130290061|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 10 כְּהֻנָּ֔ה כְּהֻנָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 8 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.priesthood|Ref=NEH_13:29!6|MId=o160130290062|Strong=3550 11-12 וּבְרִ֥ית _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 12 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_13:29!7|MId=o160130290071|Strong=2050b 12 בְרִ֥ית בְּרִית NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 10 conj _ Gloss=the.covenant|Ref=NEH_13:29!7|MId=o160130290072|Strong=1285 13-14 הַכְּהֻנָּ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 14 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=NEH_13:29!8|MId=o160130290081|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 14 כְּהֻנָּ֖ה כְּהֻנָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 12 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.priesthood|Ref=NEH_13:29!8|MId=o160130290082|Strong=3550 15-17 וְהַלְוִיִּֽם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 17 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_13:29!9|MId=o160130290091|Strong=2050b 16 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 17 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NEH_13:29!9|MId=o160130290092|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 17 לְוִיִּֽם לֵוִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 14 conj _ Gloss=Levites|Ref=NEH_13:29!9|MId=o160130290093|Strong=3881|Type=gentilic 18 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 17 punct _ Ref=NEH_13:29!9 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | זָכְר *remember* | imperative · qal | אֱלֹה *my God* | | | | 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. [Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.436/) **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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