--- title: Nehemiah 3:37 — and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out f… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before Thee; for they have vexed Thee before the builders. Who acts: you, Jews. Nehemiah 3:37 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.3.37/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH/3/) / 3:37 # Nehemiah 3:37 נְחֶמְיָה **Who acts:** you, Jews · **What happens:** not cover, let, not blot out, vex · **To what, where:** iniquity, sin, Thee This is Nehemiah 3:37 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, Jews — and what happens in the verse to iniquity, sin, Thee, 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. וְאַל־תְּכַס֙ עַל־עֲוֺנָ֔ם וְחַטָּאתָ֖ם מִלְּפָנֶ֣יךָ אַל־תִּמָּחֶ֑ה כִּ֥י הִכְעִ֖יסוּ לְנֶ֥גֶד הַבּוֹנִֽים׃ [and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before Thee; for they have vexed Thee before the builders.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.81/) ## 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:67 # text = וְאַל־תְּכַס֙ עַל־עֲוֺנָ֔ם וְחַטָּאתָ֖ם מִלְּפָנֶ֣יךָ אַל־תִּמָּחֶ֑ה כִּ֥י הִכְעִ֖יסוּ לְנֶ֥גֶד הַבּוֹנִֽים׃ # verse = NEH.3.37 1-2 וְאַל־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 3 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_3:37!1|MId=o160030370011|Strong=2050b 2 אַל־ אַל ADV _ _ 3 advmod _ Gloss=do.not|Ref=NEH_3:37!1|MId=o160030370012|Strong=0408|Type=negative 3 תְּכַס֙ כָּסָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=2 0 root _ Gloss=cover|Ref=NEH_3:37!2|MId=o160030370021|Strong=3680|Frame=A0:160030360021;|Type=jussive 4 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=over|Ref=NEH_3:37!3|MId=o160030370031|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 5-6 עֲוֺנָ֔ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 עֲוֺנ עָוֺן NOUN _ Number=Sing 3 obl _ Gloss=iniquity|Ref=NEH_3:37!4|MId=o160030370041|Strong=5771 6 ָ֔ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ Gloss=their|Ref=NEH_3:37!4|MId=o160030370042|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 7-9 וְחַטָּאתָ֖ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 15 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_3:37!5|MId=o160030370051|Strong=2050b 8 חַטָּאת חַטָּאת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 15 obj _ Gloss=sin|Ref=NEH_3:37!5|MId=o160030370052|Strong=2403 9 ָ֖ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Gloss=their|Ref=NEH_3:37!5|MId=o160030370053|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 10-13 מִלְּפָנֶ֣יךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=NEH_3:37!6|MId=o160030370061|Strong=4480 11 לְּ לְ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=before|Ref=NEH_3:37!6|MId=o160030370062|Strong=3807a 12 פָנֶ֣י פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 15 obl _ Gloss=face|Ref=NEH_3:37!6|MId=o160030370063|Strong=6440 13 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ Gloss=you|Ref=NEH_3:37!6|MId=o160030370064|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 14 אַל־ אַל ADV _ _ 15 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=NEH_3:37!7|MId=o160030370071|Strong=0408|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 15 תִּמָּחֶ֑ה מָחָה VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 3 conj _ Gloss=let.it.be.wiped.out|Ref=NEH_3:37!8|MId=o160030370081|Strong=4229|Frame=A1:160030360021;A1:160030370052;|Type=jussive 16 כִּ֥י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 17 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=NEH_3:37!9|MId=o160030370091|Strong=3588 17 הִכְעִ֖יסוּ כָּעַס VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Plur|Person=3 3 advcl _ Gloss=they.have.provoked.to.anger|Ref=NEH_3:37!10|MId=o160030370101|Strong=3707|Frame=A0:160030330041;160030350012;|Type=qatal 18-19 לְנֶ֥גֶד _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NEH_3:37!11|MId=o160030370111|Strong=3807a 19 נֶ֥גֶד נֶגֶד NOUN _ _ 17 obl _ Gloss=before|Ref=NEH_3:37!11|MId=o160030370112|Strong=5048 20-21 הַבּוֹנִֽים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 21 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NEH_3:37!12|MId=o160030370121|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 21 בּוֹנִֽים בָּנָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 19 compound:smixut _ Gloss=builders|Ref=NEH_3:37!12|MId=o160030370122|Strong=1129|Type=participle_active 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=NEH_3:37!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **not** תְּכַס *cover* | jussive · piel | | | | | | **not** תִּמָּחֶה *let it be wiped out* | jussive · niphal | | חַטָּאת *sin* | | | | הִכְעִיסוּ *they have provoked to anger* | qatal · hiphil | | | | | 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 cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before Thee; for they have vexed Thee before the builders.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.81/) **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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