--- title: Proverbs 17:14 — The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water; therefore… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off contention, before the quarrel break out. Who acts: one, quarrel. Proverbs 17:14 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, 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/PRO.17.14/) [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/) / [Proverbs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/) / [chapter 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/17/) / 17:14 # Proverbs 17:14 מִשְׁלֵי **Who acts:** one, quarrel · **What happens:** let out, leave off, break out, begin · **To what, where:** water, contention, strife This is Proverbs 17:14 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 — one, quarrel — and what happens in the verse to water, contention, strife, 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. פּ֣וֹטֵֽר מַ֭יִם רֵאשִׁ֣ית מָד֑וֹן וְלִפְנֵ֥י הִ֝תְגַּלַּ֗ע הָרִ֥יב נְטֽוֹשׁ׃ [The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off contention, before the quarrel break out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.490/) ## 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:PRO:486 # text = פּ֣וֹטֵֽר מַ֭יִם רֵאשִׁ֣ית מָד֑וֹן וְלִפְנֵ֥י הִ֝תְגַּלַּ֗ע הָרִ֥יב נְטֽוֹשׁ׃ # verse = PRO.17.14 1 פּ֣וֹטֵֽר פָּטַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=[is.one.who].lets.out|Ref=PRO_17:14!1|MId=o200170140011|Strong=6362|Frame=A0:200170140021;|Type=participle_active 2 מַ֭יִם מַיִם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 1 nsubj _ Gloss=water|Ref=PRO_17:14!2|MId=o200170140021|Strong=4325 3 רֵאשִׁ֣ית רֵאשִׁית NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ Gloss=[the].beginning|Ref=PRO_17:14!3|MId=o200170140031|Strong=7225 4 מָד֑וֹן מָדוֹן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.strife|Ref=PRO_17:14!4|MId=o200170140041|Strong=4066 5-7 וְלִפְנֵ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 11 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PRO_17:14!5|MId=o200170140051|Strong=2050b 6 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=|Ref=PRO_17:14!5|MId=o200170140052|Strong=3807a 7 פְנֵ֥י פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 11 obl _ Gloss=before|Ref=PRO_17:14!5|MId=o200170140053|Strong=6440 8 הִ֝תְגַּלַּ֗ע גָּלַע VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HITHPAEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 7 acl _ Gloss=it.has.broken.out|Ref=PRO_17:14!6|MId=o200170140061|Strong=1566|Frame=A0:200170140072;|Type=qatal 9-10 הָרִ֥יב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 10 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=PRO_17:14!7|MId=o200170140071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 10 רִ֥יב רִיב NOUN _ Number=Sing 11 obj _ Gloss=dispute|Ref=PRO_17:14!7|MId=o200170140072|Strong=7379 11 נְטֽוֹשׁ נָטַשׁ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 1 conj _ Gloss=abandon|Ref=PRO_17:14!8|MId=o200170140081|Strong=5203|Frame=A0:200080320021;A1:200170140072;|Type=imperative|SpaceAfter=No 12 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 11 punct _ Ref=PRO_17:14!8 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: character - speech: speech with no frame - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | פּוֹטֵֽר *\[is one who\] lets out* | participle active · qal | מַיִם *water* | | | | | הִתְגַּלַּע *it has broken out* | qatal · hithpael | רִיב *dispute* | | | | | נְטֽוֹשׁ *abandon* | imperative · qal | | רִיב *dispute* | | | 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} אָשֵׁד דְמָא הֵיךְ מַיָא מְגָרֵי תִגְרֵי וּקְדָם אִצְטַדְיָא אַטְעֵי דִינָא: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## 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. [The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off contention, before the quarrel break out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.490/) **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:486`. - ← previous: [Proverbs 17:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.13/) - next →: [Proverbs 17:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.15/) - ↑ back to [Proverbs 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/17/)