--- title: Proverbs 8:29 — When He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not trans… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: When He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not transgress His commandment, when He appointed the foundations of the earth; Who acts: earth, waters. Proverbs 8:29 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.8.29/) [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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/8/) / 8:29 # Proverbs 8:29 מִשְׁלֵי **Who acts:** earth, waters · **What happens:** give, not transgress, appoint, decree, command · **To what, where:** decree, sea, commandment, foundations · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Proverbs 8:29 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 — earth, waters — and what happens in the verse to decree, sea, commandment, foundations, 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. בְּשׂ֘וּמ֤וֹ לַיָּ֨ם ׀ חֻקּ֗וֹ וּ֭מַיִם לֹ֣א יַֽעַבְרוּ־פִ֑יו בְּ֝חוּק֗וֹ מ֣וֹסְדֵי אָֽרֶץ׃ [When He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not transgress His commandment, when He appointed the foundations of the earth;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.232/) ## 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:230 # text = בְּשׂ֘וּמ֤וֹ לַיָּ֨ם ׀ חֻקּ֗וֹ וּ֭מַיִם לֹ֣א יַֽעַבְרוּ־פִ֑יו בְּ֝חוּק֗וֹ מ֣וֹסְדֵי אָֽרֶץ׃ # verse = PRO.8.29 1-3 בְּשׂ֘וּמ֤וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 2 case _ Gloss=when|Ref=PRO_8:29!1|MId=o200080290011|Strong=0871a 2 שׂ֘וּמ שׂים VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 0 root _ Gloss=set|Ref=PRO_8:29!1|MId=o200080290012|Strong=7760|Frame=A0:200080290013;A1:200080290031;|Type=infinitive_construct 3 ֤וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ Gloss=he|Ref=PRO_8:29!1|MId=o200080290013|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 4-6 לַיָּ֨ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=PRO_8:29!2|MId=o200080290021|Strong=3807a 5 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 6 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=PRO_8:29!2|MId=o200080290021ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 6 יָּ֨ם יָם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 obl _ Gloss=sea|Ref=PRO_8:29!2|MId=o200080290022|Strong=3220 7 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 6 punct _ Ref=PRO_8:29!2 8-9 חֻקּ֗וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 חֻקּ חֹק NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 obj _ Gloss=limit|Ref=PRO_8:29!3|MId=o200080290031|Strong=2706 9 ֗וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Gloss=its|Ref=PRO_8:29!3|MId=o200080290032|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 10-11 וּ֭מַיִם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 וּ֭ וְ CCONJ _ _ 13 cc _ Gloss=and.[the]|Ref=PRO_8:29!4|MId=o200080290041|Strong=2050b 11 מַיִם מַיִם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ Gloss=waters|Ref=PRO_8:29!4|MId=o200080290042|Strong=4325 12 לֹ֣א לֹא ADV _ _ 13 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=PRO_8:29!5|MId=o200080290051|Strong=3808|Type=negative 13 יַֽעַבְרוּ־ עָבַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.will.transgress|Ref=PRO_8:29!6|MId=o200080290061|Strong=5674|Frame=A0:200080290042;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No 14-15 פִ֑יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 פִ֑י פֶּה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 obl _ Gloss=mouth|Ref=PRO_8:29!7|MId=o200080290071|Strong=6310 15 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=PRO_8:29!7|MId=o200080290072|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 16-18 בְּ֝חוּק֗וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 בְּ֝ בְּ ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=when|Ref=PRO_8:29!8|MId=o200080290081|Strong=0871a 17 חוּק חָקַק VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 2 parataxis _ Gloss=he|Ref=PRO_8:29!8|MId=o200080290082|Strong=2710|Frame=A0:200080290083;A1:200080290091;|Type=infinitive_construct 18 ֗וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ Gloss=marked.out|Ref=PRO_8:29!8|MId=o200080290083|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 19 מ֣וֹסְדֵי מוֹסָד NOUN _ Number=Plur 17 obj _ Gloss=[the].foundations|Ref=PRO_8:29!9|MId=o200080290091|Strong=4144 20 אָֽרֶץ אֶרֶץ NOUN _ Number=Sing 19 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.[the].earth|Ref=PRO_8:29!10|MId=o200080290101|Strong=0776|SpaceAfter=No 21 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 20 punct _ Ref=PRO_8:29!10 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | שׂוּמ *set* | infinitive construct · qal | וֹ *he* | חֻקּ *limit* | | | | **not** יַֽעַבְרוּ־ *they will transgress* | yiqtol · qal | מַיִם *waters* | | | | | חוּק *he* | infinitive construct · qal | וֹ *marked out* | מוֹסְדֵי *\[the\] foundations* | | | 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} וְכַד שָׂם לְיַמָא תְּחוּמֵיהּ וּמַיָא לָא עָבְרִין לֵיהּ (וְכַד) שָׂם שַׁתְאַסַיָא 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. [When He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not transgress His commandment, when He appointed the foundations of the earth;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.232/) **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:230`. - ← previous: [Proverbs 8:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.28/) - next →: [Proverbs 8:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.30/) - ↑ back to [Proverbs 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/8/)