--- title: Proverbs 27:22 — Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among gr… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. Who acts: thou, foolishness. Proverbs 27:22 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.27.22/) [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/) / 27:22 # Proverbs 27:22 מִשְׁלֵי **Who acts:** thou, foolishness · **What happens:** bray, not depart · **To what, where:** fool, mortar This is Proverbs 27:22 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 — thou, foolishness — and what happens in the verse to fool, mortar, 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. אִ֥ם תִּכְתּֽוֹשׁ־אֶת־הָאֱוִ֨יל ׀ בַּֽמַּכְתֵּ֡שׁ בְּת֣וֹךְ הָ֭רִיפוֹת בַּֽעֱלִ֑י לֹא־תָס֥וּר מֵ֝עָלָ֗יו אִוַּלְתּֽוֹ׃פ [Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.799/) ## 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:790 # text = אִ֥ם תִּכְתּֽוֹשׁ־אֶת־הָאֱוִ֨יל ׀ בַּֽמַּכְתֵּ֡שׁ בְּת֣וֹךְ הָ֭רִיפוֹת בַּֽעֱלִ֑י לֹא־תָס֥וּר מֵ֝עָלָ֗יו אִוַּלְתּֽוֹ׃פ # verse = PRO.27.22 1 אִ֥ם אִם SCONJ _ _ 2 mark _ Gloss=if|Ref=PRO_27:22!1|MId=o200270220011|Strong=0518 2 תִּכְתּֽוֹשׁ־ כָּתַשׁ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 18 advcl _ Gloss=you.will.pound|Ref=PRO_27:22!2|MId=o200270220021|Strong=3806|Frame=A0:200270110021;A1:200270220042;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No 3 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=PRO_27:22!3|MId=o200270220031|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 4-5 הָאֱוִ֨יל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 5 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=PRO_27:22!4|MId=o200270220041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 5 אֱוִ֨יל אֱוִיל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 obj _ Gloss=fool|Ref=PRO_27:22!4|MId=o200270220042|Strong=0191|Type=adjective 6 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 5 punct _ Ref=PRO_27:22!4 7-9 בַּֽמַּכְתֵּ֡שׁ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 בַּֽ בְּ ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=PRO_27:22!5|MId=o200270220051|Strong=0871a 8 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 9 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=PRO_27:22!5|MId=o200270220051ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 9 מַּכְתֵּ֡שׁ מַכְתֵּשׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 obl _ Gloss=mortar|Ref=PRO_27:22!5|MId=o200270220052|Strong=4388 10-11 בְּת֣וֹךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=among|Ref=PRO_27:22!6|MId=o200270220061|Strong=0871a 11 ת֣וֹךְ תָּוֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 obl _ Gloss=|Ref=PRO_27:22!6|MId=o200270220062|Strong=8432 12-13 הָ֭רִיפוֹת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 הָ֭ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 13 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=PRO_27:22!7|MId=o200270220071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 13 רִיפוֹת רִיפֹות NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 11 compound:smixut _ Gloss=grain(s)|Ref=PRO_27:22!7|MId=o200270220072|Strong=7383 14-16 בַּֽעֱלִ֑י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 בַּֽ בְּ ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=with|Ref=PRO_27:22!8|MId=o200270220081|Strong=0871a 15 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 16 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=PRO_27:22!8|MId=o200270220081ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 16 עֱלִ֑י עֱלִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 obl _ Gloss=pestle|Ref=PRO_27:22!8|MId=o200270220082|Strong=5940 17 לֹא־ לֹא ADV _ _ 18 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=PRO_27:22!9|MId=o200270220091|Strong=3808|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 18 תָס֥וּר סוּר VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=it.will.depart|Ref=PRO_27:22!10|MId=o200270220101|Strong=5493|Frame=A0:200270220121;|Type=yiqtol 19-21 מֵ֝עָלָ֗יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 מֵ֝ מִן ADP _ _ 21 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=PRO_27:22!11|MId=o200270220111|Strong=4480 20 עָלָ֗י עַל ADP _ _ 21 case _ Gloss=with|Ref=PRO_27:22!11|MId=o200270220112|Strong=5921 21 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ Gloss=him|Ref=PRO_27:22!11|MId=o200270220113|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 22-23 אִוַּלְתּֽוֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 אִוַּלְתּ אִוֶּלֶת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Gloss=foolishness|Ref=PRO_27:22!12|MId=o200270220121|Strong=0200 23 ֽוֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=PRO_27:22!12|MId=o200270220122|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 24 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 23 punct _ Ref=PRO_27:22!12|SpaceAfter=No 25 פ פ PUNCT _ _ 23 punct _ Ref=PRO_27:22!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: speech with no frame - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | תִּכְתּֽוֹשׁ־ *you will pound* | yiqtol · qal | | אֱוִיל *fool* | | | | **not** תָסוּר *it will depart* | yiqtol · qal | אִוַּלְתּ *foolishness* | | | | 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} אִין מָחְיַת לֵיהּ לְשַׁטְיָא בְּמַכְתְּשֵׁי בְּגוֹ סִיַעְתָּא וּבְאוּדְרָךְ לָא תַעֲבִיר מִנֵיהּ שַׁטְיוּתֵיהּ: 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. [Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.799/) **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:790`. - ← previous: [Proverbs 27:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.21/) - next →: [Proverbs 27:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.23/) - ↑ back to [Proverbs 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/27/)