--- title: Proverbs 30:15 — The horseleech hath two daughters: 'Give, give.' There are three thi… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: The horseleech hath two daughters: 'Give, give.' There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four that say not: 'Enough': Who acts: horseleech, three things. Proverbs 30:15 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.30.15/) [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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/30/) / 30:15 # Proverbs 30:15 מִשְׁלֵי **Who acts:** horseleech, three things · **What happens:** have, give, be, not satisfied, not say · **To what, where:** two daughters, three things · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Proverbs 30:15 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 — horseleech, three things — and what happens in the verse to two daughters, three things, 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. לַֽעֲלוּקָ֨ה ׀ שְׁתֵּ֥י בָנוֹת֮ הַ֤ב ׀ הַ֥ב שָׁל֣וֹשׁ הֵ֭נָּה לֹ֣א תִשְׂבַּ֑עְנָה אַ֝רְבַּ֗ע לֹא־אָ֥מְרוּ הֽוֹן׃ [The horseleech hath two daughters: 'Give, give.' There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four that say not: 'Enough':](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.879/) ## 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:865 # text = לַֽעֲלוּקָ֨ה ׀ שְׁתֵּ֥י בָנוֹת֮ הַ֤ב ׀ הַ֥ב שָׁל֣וֹשׁ הֵ֭נָּה לֹ֣א תִשְׂבַּ֑עְנָה אַ֝רְבַּ֗ע לֹא־אָ֥מְרוּ הֽוֹן׃ # verse = PRO.30.15 1-2 לַֽעֲלוּקָ֨ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 לַֽ לְ ADP _ _ 2 case _ Gloss=[belong].to|Ref=PRO_30:15!1|MId=o200300150011|Strong=3807a 2 עֲלוּקָ֨ה עֲלוּקָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=a.leech|Ref=PRO_30:15!1|MId=o200300150012|Strong=5936 3 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 2 punct _ Ref=PRO_30:15!1 4 שְׁתֵּ֥י שְׁנַיִם NUM _ Gender=Fem|Number=Dual 5 nummod _ Gloss=two|Ref=PRO_30:15!2|MId=o200300150021|Strong=8147|Type=cardinal_number 5 בָנוֹת֮ בַּת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Gloss=daughters|Ref=PRO_30:15!3|MId=o200300150031|Strong=1323 6 הַ֤ב יָהַב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 2 parataxis _ Gloss=give|Ref=PRO_30:15!4|MId=o200300150041|Strong=3051|Frame=A0:200300150031;|Type=imperative 7 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 6 punct _ Ref=PRO_30:15!4 8 הַ֥ב יָהַב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 2 parataxis _ Gloss=give|Ref=PRO_30:15!5|MId=o200300150051|Strong=3051|Frame=A0:200300150031;|Type=imperative 9 שָׁל֣וֹשׁ שָׁלֹשׁ NUM _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 12 dislocated _ Gloss=three.[things]|Ref=PRO_30:15!6|MId=o200300150061|Strong=7969|Type=cardinal_number 10 הֵ֭נָּה הֵנָּה PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ Gloss=they|Ref=PRO_30:15!7|MId=o200300150071|Strong=2007|Type=personal 11 לֹ֣א לֹא ADV _ _ 12 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=PRO_30:15!8|MId=o200300150081|Strong=3808|Type=negative 12 תִשְׂבַּ֑עְנָה שָׂבֵעַ VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 parataxis _ Gloss=they.are.satisfied|Ref=PRO_30:15!9|MId=o200300150091|Strong=7646|Frame=A0:200300150071;|Type=yiqtol 13 אַ֝רְבַּ֗ע אַרְבַּע NUM _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Gloss=four.[things]|Ref=PRO_30:15!10|MId=o200300150101|Strong=0702|Type=cardinal_number 14 לֹא־ לֹא ADV _ _ 15 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=PRO_30:15!11|MId=o200300150111|Strong=3808|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 15 אָ֥מְרוּ אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 parataxis _ Gloss=they.say|Ref=PRO_30:15!12|MId=o200300150121|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:200300150101;A1:200300150131;|Type=qatal 16 הֽוֹן הוֹן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 obj _ Gloss=enough|Ref=PRO_30:15!13|MId=o200300150131|Strong=1952|SpaceAfter=No 17 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 16 punct _ Ref=PRO_30:15!13 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | הַב *give* | imperative · qal | בָנוֹת *daughters* | | | | | הַב *give* | imperative · qal | בָנוֹת *daughters* | | | | | **not** תִשְׂבַּעְנָה *they are satisfied* | yiqtol · qal | הֵנָּה *they* | | | | | **not** אָמְרוּ *they say* | qatal · qal | אַרְבַּע *four \[things\]* | הֽוֹן *enough* | | | 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} לַעֲלוּקָא תַּרְתֵּין בְּנִין הַב הַב תְּלַת אִינוּן דְלָא שָׂבְעָן וְאַרְבַּע דְלָא אָמְרָן מִסְתָא: 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 horseleech hath two daughters: 'Give, give.' There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four that say not: 'Enough':](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.879/) **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:865`. - ← previous: [Proverbs 30:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.14/) - next →: [Proverbs 30:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.16/) - ↑ back to [Proverbs 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/30/)