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title: Proverbs 11:15 — He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; but he that hat… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; but he that hateth them that strike hands is secure. Who acts: safety. Proverbs 11:15 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 11:15 מִשְׁלֵי

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**Who acts:** safety · **What happens:** be, smart, hate, strike · **To what, where:** surety, people, hands

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This is Proverbs 11:15 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 — safety — and what happens in the verse to surety, people, hands, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 31 chapters of Proverbs on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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רַע־יֵ֭רוֹעַ כִּי־עָ֣רַב זָ֑ר וְשֹׂנֵ֖א תֹקְעִ֣ים בּוֹטֵֽחַ׃

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[He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; but he that hateth them that strike hands is secure.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.305/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:PRO:302
# text = רַע־יֵ֭רוֹעַ כִּי־עָ֣רַב זָ֑ר וְשֹׂנֵ֖א תֹקְעִ֣ים בּוֹטֵֽחַ׃
# verse = PRO.11.15
1	רַע־	רַע	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=harm|Ref=PRO_11:15!1|MId=o200110150011|Strong=7451|Type=adjective|SpaceAfter=No
2	יֵ֭רוֹעַ	רָעַע	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.is.harmed|Ref=PRO_11:15!2|MId=o200110150021|Strong=7489|Frame=A0:200110150011;|Type=yiqtol
3	כִּי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	4	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=PRO_11:15!3|MId=o200110150031|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No
4	עָ֣רַב	עָרַב	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	advcl	_	Gloss=he.stood.surety.for|Ref=PRO_11:15!4|MId=o200110150041|Strong=6148|Frame=A0:200110150011;A1:200110150051;|Type=qatal
5	זָ֑ר	זָר	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Gloss=a.stranger|Ref=PRO_11:15!5|MId=o200110150051|Strong=2114b|Type=adjective
6-7	וְשֹׂנֵ֖א	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	9	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=PRO_11:15!6|MId=o200110150061|Strong=2050b
7	שֹׂנֵ֖א	שָׂנֵא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Gloss=[one.who].hates|Ref=PRO_11:15!6|MId=o200110150062|Strong=8130|Frame=A1:200110150071;|Type=participle_active
8	תֹקְעִ֣ים	תֹּוקְעִים	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	7	obj	_	Gloss=those.striking.hands|Ref=PRO_11:15!7|MId=o200110150071|Strong=8628
9	בּוֹטֵֽחַ	בָּטַח	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing	2	conj	_	Gloss=[is].secure|Ref=PRO_11:15!8|MId=o200110150081|Strong=0982|Frame=A0:200110150062;|Type=participle_active|SpaceAfter=No
10	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	9	punct	_	Ref=PRO_11:15!8
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יֵרוֹעַ *he is harmed* | yiqtol · niphal | רַע־ *harm* |  |  |  |
| עָרַב *he stood surety for* | qatal · qal | רַע־ *harm* | זָר *a stranger* |  |  |
| שֹׂנֵא *\[one who\] hates* | participle active · qal |  | תֹקְעִים *those striking hands* |  |  |
| בּוֹטֵֽחַ *\[is\] secure* | participle active · qal | שֹׂנֵא *\[one who\] hates* |  |  |  |

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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.

## The Targum {#onkelos}

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בִּישָׁא מַבְאֵשׁ בְּצַדִיקָא מְטוּל דְהוּא עֲרַב חִילוֹנַי וְסָנֵי לְאִלֵין דְסָיְמִין סִבְרֵהוֹן בֵּאלָהָא:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; but he that hateth them that strike hands is secure.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.305/)

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**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:PRO:302`.

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