--- title: Proverbs 27:21 — The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man is tried by his praise. Who acts: refining pot, praise, Destruction. Proverbs 27:21 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.27.21/) [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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/27/) / 27:21 # Proverbs 27:21 מִשְׁלֵי **Who acts:** refining pot, praise, Destruction · **What happens:** be, try, praise · **To what, where:** man This is Proverbs 27:21 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 — refining pot, praise, Destruction — and what happens in the verse to man, 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. מַצְרֵ֣ף לַ֭כֶּסֶף וְכ֣וּר לַזָּהָ֑ב וְ֝אִ֗ישׁ לְפִ֣י מַהֲלָלֽוֹ׃ [The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man is tried by his praise.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.798/) ## 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:789 # text = מַצְרֵ֣ף לַ֭כֶּסֶף וְכ֣וּר לַזָּהָ֑ב וְ֝אִ֗ישׁ לְפִ֣י מַהֲלָלֽוֹ׃ # verse = PRO.27.21 1 מַצְרֵ֣ף מַצְרֵף NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Gloss=a.crucible|Ref=PRO_27:21!1|MId=o200270210011|Strong=4715 2-4 לַ֭כֶּסֶף _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 לַ֭ לְ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=[is].for|Ref=PRO_27:21!2|MId=o200270210021|Strong=3807a 3 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 4 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=PRO_27:21!2|MId=o200270210021ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 4 כֶּסֶף כֶּסֶף NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=silver|Ref=PRO_27:21!2|MId=o200270210022|Strong=3701 5-6 וְכ֣וּר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PRO_27:21!3|MId=o200270210031|Strong=2050b 6 כ֣וּר כּוּר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Gloss=a.furnace|Ref=PRO_27:21!3|MId=o200270210032|Strong=3564 7-9 לַזָּהָ֑ב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=[is].for|Ref=PRO_27:21!4|MId=o200270210041|Strong=3807a 8 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 9 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=PRO_27:21!4|MId=o200270210041ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 9 זָּהָ֑ב זָהָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 conj _ Gloss=gold|Ref=PRO_27:21!4|MId=o200270210042|Strong=2091 10-11 וְ֝אִ֗ישׁ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 וְ֝ וְ CCONJ _ _ 11 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PRO_27:21!5|MId=o200270210051|Strong=2050b 11 אִ֗ישׁ אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 conj _ Gloss=a.person|Ref=PRO_27:21!5|MId=o200270210052|Strong=0376 12-13 לְפִ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=[is].to|Ref=PRO_27:21!6|MId=o200270210061|Strong=3807a 13 פִ֣י פֶּה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 obl _ Gloss=the.mouth|Ref=PRO_27:21!6|MId=o200270210062|Strong=6310 14-15 מַהֲלָלֽוֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 מַהֲלָל מַהֲלָל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 compound:smixut _ Gloss=his.praise|Ref=PRO_27:21!7|MId=o200270210071|Strong=4110 15 ֽוֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=PRO_27:21!7|MId=o200270210072|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 16 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 15 punct _ Ref=PRO_27:21!7 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no MACULA marks no verb frame in this verse. ## The Targum {#onkelos} צָרָפָא לְכַסְפָּא וְכוּרָא לְדַהֲבָא וְגַבְרָא מִן פּוּמָא דִמְשַׁבְּחָנוֹי: 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 refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man is tried by his praise.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.798/) **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:789`. - ← previous: [Proverbs 27:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.20/) - next →: [Proverbs 27:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.22/) - ↑ back to [Proverbs 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/27/)