--- title: Nehemiah 9:18 — Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said: 'This is thy G… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said: 'This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations; Who acts: commandments, This, God. Nehemiah 9:18 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.9.18/) [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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH/9/) / 9:18 # Nehemiah 9:18 נְחֶמְיָה **Who acts:** commandments, This, God · **What happens:** make, say, be, bring up, wrought · **To what, where:** molten calf, wonders, God, thee, Egypt, great provocations · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Nehemiah 9:18 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 — commandments, This, God — and what happens in the verse to molten calf, wonders, God, thee, Egypt, great provocations, 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. אַ֗ף כִּֽי־עָשׂ֤וּ לָהֶם֙ עֵ֣גֶל מַסֵּכָ֔ה וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ זֶ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֶעֶלְךָ֖ מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֔וּ נֶאָצ֖וֹת גְּדֹלֽוֹת׃ [Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said: 'This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.259/) ## 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:231 # text = אַ֗ף כִּֽי־עָשׂ֤וּ לָהֶם֙ עֵ֣גֶל מַסֵּכָ֔ה וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ זֶ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֶעֶלְךָ֖ מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֔וּ נֶאָצ֖וֹת גְּדֹלֽוֹת׃ # verse = NEH.9.18 1 אַ֗ף אַף ADV _ _ 3 advmod _ Gloss=even|Ref=NEH_9:18!1|MId=o160090180011|Strong=0637|Type=affirmation 2 כִּֽי־ כִּי SCONJ _ _ 3 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=NEH_9:18!2|MId=o160090180021|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No 3 עָשׂ֤וּ עָשָׂה VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.had.made|Ref=NEH_9:18!3|MId=o160090180031|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:160090160022;A1:160090180051;|Type=qatal 4-5 לָהֶם֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 ל לְ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=NEH_9:18!4|MId=o160090180041|Strong=3807a 5 ָהֶם֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ Gloss=themselves|Ref=NEH_9:18!4|MId=o160090180042|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 6 עֵ֣גֶל עֵגֶל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 obj _ Gloss=a.calf|Ref=NEH_9:18!5|MId=o160090180051|Strong=5695 7 מַסֵּכָ֔ה מַסֵּכָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 6 appos _ Gloss=molten.metal|Ref=NEH_9:18!6|MId=o160090180061|Strong=4541 8-9 וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_9:18!7|MId=o160090180071|Strong=2050b 9 יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 3 conj _ Gloss=they.had.said|Ref=NEH_9:18!7|MId=o160090180072|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:160090160022;A1:160090180091;|Type=wayyiqtol 10 זֶ֣ה זֶה PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 nsubj _ Gloss=this|Ref=NEH_9:18!8|MId=o160090180081|Strong=2088|Type=demonstrative 11-12 אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 אֱלֹהֶ֔י אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 9 ccomp _ Gloss=god|Ref=NEH_9:18!9|MId=o160090180091|Strong=0430 12 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Gloss=[is].your|Ref=NEH_9:18!9|MId=o160090180092|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 13 אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 14 mark _ Gloss=who|Ref=NEH_9:18!10|MId=o160090180101|Strong=0834|Type=relative 14-15 הֶעֶלְךָ֖ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 הֶעֶל עָלָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 11 acl:relcl _ Gloss=he|Ref=NEH_9:18!11|MId=o160090180111|Strong=5927|Frame=AA:160090180091;A0:160090180112;|Type=qatal 15 ְךָ֖ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ Gloss=brought.you.up|Ref=NEH_9:18!11|MId=o160090180112|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 16-17 מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=NEH_9:18!12|MId=o160090180121|Strong=4480 17 מִּצְרָ֑יִם מִצְרַיִם PROPN _ _ 14 obl _ Gloss=Egypt|Ref=NEH_9:18!12|MId=o160090180122|Strong=4714 18-19 וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֔וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 וַֽ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NEH_9:18!13|MId=o160090180131|Strong=2050b 19 יַּעֲשׂ֔וּ עָשָׂה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 3 conj _ Gloss=they.had.done|Ref=NEH_9:18!13|MId=o160090180132|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:160090160022;A1:160090180141;|Type=wayyiqtol 20 נֶאָצ֖וֹת נֶאָצָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 19 obj _ Gloss=blasphemies|Ref=NEH_9:18!14|MId=o160090180141|Strong=5007a 21 גְּדֹלֽוֹת גָּדוֹל ADJ _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 20 amod _ Gloss=great|Ref=NEH_9:18!15|MId=o160090180151|Strong=1419|Type=adjective|SpaceAfter=No 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=NEH_9:18!15 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · assert · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | עָשׂוּ *they had made* | qatal · qal | | עֵגֶל *a calf* | | | | יֹּאמְרוּ *they had said* | wayyiqtol · qal | | אֱלֹהֶי *god* | | | | הֶעֶל *he* | qatal · hiphil | ְךָ *brought you up* | | | אֱלֹהֶי *god* | | יַּעֲשׂוּ *they had done* | wayyiqtol · qal | | נֶאָצוֹת *blasphemies* | | | 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. [Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said: 'This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.259/) **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). Hebrew sentence `wlc:NEH:231`. - ← previous: [Nehemiah 9:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.17/) - next →: [Nehemiah 9:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.19/) - ↑ back to [Nehemiah 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH/9/)