--- title: Proverbs 21:9 — It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than in a house i… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than in a house in common with a contentious woman. Proverbs 21:9 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.21.9/) [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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/21/) / 21:9 # Proverbs 21:9 מִשְׁלֵי **What happens:** be, dwell · **To what, where:** corner This is Proverbs 21:9 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: what happens in the verse to corner, 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. ט֗וֹב לָשֶׁ֥בֶת עַל־פִּנַּת־גָּ֑ג מֵאֵ֥שֶׁת מִ֝דְיָנִ֗ים וּבֵ֥ית חָֽבֶר׃ [It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than in a house in common with a contentious woman.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.597/) ## 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:592 # text = ט֗וֹב לָשֶׁ֥בֶת עַל־פִּנַּת־גָּ֑ג מֵאֵ֥שֶׁת מִ֝דְיָנִ֗ים וּבֵ֥ית חָֽבֶר׃ # verse = PRO.21.9 1 ט֗וֹב טוֹב ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=[is].good|Ref=PRO_21:9!1|MId=o200210090011|Strong=2896|Type=adjective 2-3 לָשֶׁ֥בֶת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 לָ לְ ADP _ _ 3 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=PRO_21:9!2|MId=o200210090021|Strong=3807a 3 שֶׁ֥בֶת יָשַׁב VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 1 nsubj _ Gloss=dwell|Ref=PRO_21:9!2|MId=o200210090022|Strong=3427|Frame=A0:;|Type=infinitive_construct 4 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=PRO_21:9!3|MId=o200210090031|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 5 פִּנַּת־ פִּנָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 3 obl _ Gloss=a.corner|Ref=PRO_21:9!4|MId=o200210090041|Strong=6438|SpaceAfter=No 6 גָּ֑ג גָּג NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.a.roof|Ref=PRO_21:9!5|MId=o200210090051|Strong=1406 7-8 מֵאֵ֥שֶׁת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 מֵ מִן ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=more|Ref=PRO_21:9!6|MId=o200210090061|Strong=4480 8 אֵ֥שֶׁת אִשָּׁה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 1 obl _ Gloss=than.a.woman|Ref=PRO_21:9!6|MId=o200210090062|Strong=0802 9 מִ֝דְיָנִ֗ים מִדְיָן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 8 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.contentions|Ref=PRO_21:9!7|MId=o200210090071|Strong=4079 10-11 וּבֵ֥ית _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 11 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PRO_21:9!8|MId=o200210090081|Strong=2050b 11 בֵ֥ית בַּיִת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 conj _ Gloss=a.house|Ref=PRO_21:9!8|MId=o200210090082|Strong=1004 12 חָֽבֶר חֶבֶר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.association|Ref=PRO_21:9!9|MId=o200210090091|Strong=2267|SpaceAfter=No 13 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 12 punct _ Ref=PRO_21:9!9 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | שֶׁבֶת *dwell* | infinitive construct · qal | | | | | 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} טָב לְמֵיתַב עַל קַרְנָא דְאִגְרָא מִן אִתְּתָא תַּגְרָנִיתָא וּבֵיתָא טָרְקָא: 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. [It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than in a house in common with a contentious woman.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.597/) **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:592`. - ← previous: [Proverbs 21:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.8/) - next →: [Proverbs 21:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.10/) - ↑ back to [Proverbs 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/21/)