--- title: Proverbs 17:24 — Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth. Who acts: Wisdom, eyes. Proverbs 17:24 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.17.24/) [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/) / 17:24 # Proverbs 17:24 מִשְׁלֵי **Who acts:** Wisdom, eyes · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** understanding, ends This is Proverbs 17:24 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 — Wisdom, eyes — and what happens in the verse to understanding, ends, 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. אֶת־פְּנֵ֣י מֵבִ֣ין חָכְמָ֑ה וְעֵינֵ֥י כְ֝סִ֗יל בִּקְצֵה־אָֽרֶץ׃ [Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.500/) ## 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:496 # text = אֶת־פְּנֵ֣י מֵבִ֣ין חָכְמָ֑ה וְעֵינֵ֥י כְ֝סִ֗יל בִּקְצֵה־אָֽרֶץ׃ # verse = PRO.17.24 1 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 2 case _ Gloss=[is].with|Ref=PRO_17:24!1|MId=o200170240011|Strong=0854|SpaceAfter=No 2 פְּנֵ֣י פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 0 root _ Gloss=[the].presence|Ref=PRO_17:24!2|MId=o200170240021|Strong=6440 3 מֵבִ֣ין בִּין VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing 2 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.[one.who].has.understanding|Ref=PRO_17:24!3|MId=o200170240031|Strong=0995|Type=participle_active 4 חָכְמָ֑ה חׇכְמָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Gloss=wisdom|Ref=PRO_17:24!4|MId=o200170240041|Strong=2451 5-6 וְעֵינֵ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and.[the]|Ref=PRO_17:24!5|MId=o200170240051|Strong=2050b 6 עֵינֵ֥י עַיִן NOUN _ Number=Dual 9 nsubj _ Gloss=eyes|Ref=PRO_17:24!5|MId=o200170240052|Strong=5869 7 כְ֝סִ֗יל כְּסִיל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.a.fool|Ref=PRO_17:24!6|MId=o200170240061|Strong=3684|Type=adjective 8-9 בִּקְצֵה־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 בִּ בְּ ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=[are].at.[the]|Ref=PRO_17:24!7|MId=o200170240071|Strong=0871a 9 קְצֵה־ קָצֶה NOUN _ Number=Sing 2 conj _ Gloss=end|Ref=PRO_17:24!7|MId=o200170240072|Strong=7097 10 אָֽרֶץ אֶרֶץ NOUN _ Number=Sing 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.[the].earth|Ref=PRO_17:24!8|MId=o200170240081|Strong=0776|SpaceAfter=No 11 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 10 punct _ Ref=PRO_17:24!8 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no MACULA marks no verb frame in this verse. ## The Targum {#onkelos} אַפּוֹי דְסוּכְלְתָנָא חָדְיָן בְּחָכְמְתָא וְעַיְנוֹי דְסִכְלָא בְּעוּמְקָא דְאַרְעָא: 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. [Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.500/) **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:496`. - ← previous: [Proverbs 17:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.23/) - next →: [Proverbs 17:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.25/) - ↑ back to [Proverbs 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/17/)