--- title: Proverbs 8:34 — Happy is the man that hearkeneth to me, watching daily at my gates,… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Happy is the man that hearkeneth to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. Who acts: man. Proverbs 8:34 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.8.34/) [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/) / 8:34 # Proverbs 8:34 מִשְׁלֵי **Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, hearken, watch, wait · **To what, where:** me, gates, posts This is Proverbs 8:34 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 — man — and what happens in the verse to me, gates, posts, 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. אַ֥שְֽׁרֵי אָדָם֮ שֹׁמֵ֪עַֽ֫ לִ֥י לִשְׁקֹ֣ד עַל־דַּ֭לְתֹתַי י֤וֹם ׀ י֑וֹם לִ֝שְׁמֹ֗ר מְזוּזֹ֥ת פְּתָחָֽי׃ [Happy is the man that hearkeneth to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.237/) ## 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:235 # text = אַ֥שְֽׁרֵי אָדָם֮ שֹׁמֵ֪עַֽ֫ לִ֥י לִשְׁקֹ֣ד עַל־דַּ֭לְתֹתַי י֤וֹם ׀ י֑וֹם לִ֝שְׁמֹ֗ר מְזוּזֹ֥ת פְּתָחָֽי׃ # verse = PRO.8.34 1 אַ֥שְֽׁרֵי אֶשֶׁר INTJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 0 root _ Gloss=how.blessed!|Ref=PRO_8:34!1|MId=o200080340011|Strong=0835a 2 אָדָם֮ אָדָם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ Gloss=[is].anyone|Ref=PRO_8:34!2|MId=o200080340021|Strong=0120 3 שֹׁמֵ֪עַֽ֫ שָׁמַע VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 2 acl:relcl _ Gloss=[who].listens|Ref=PRO_8:34!3|MId=o200080340031|Strong=8085|Frame=A0:200080340021;|Type=participle_active 4-5 לִ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 ל לְ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=PRO_8:34!4|MId=o200080340041|Strong=3807a 5 ִ֥י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ Gloss=me|Ref=PRO_8:34!4|MId=o200080340042|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 6-7 לִשְׁקֹ֣ד _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=by|Ref=PRO_8:34!5|MId=o200080340051|Strong=3807a 7 שְׁקֹ֣ד שָׁקַד VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 3 advcl _ Gloss=keeping.watch|Ref=PRO_8:34!5|MId=o200080340052|Strong=8245|Frame=A0:200080340021;|Type=infinitive_construct 8 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=at|Ref=PRO_8:34!6|MId=o200080340061|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 9-10 דַּ֭לְתֹתַי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 דַּ֭לְתֹת דֶּלֶת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 7 obl _ Gloss=doors|Ref=PRO_8:34!7|MId=o200080340071|Strong=1817 10 ַי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PRO_8:34!7|MId=o200080340072|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 11 י֤וֹם יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 obl _ Gloss=day|Ref=PRO_8:34!8|MId=o200080340081|Strong=3117 12 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 11 punct _ Ref=PRO_8:34!8 13 י֑וֹם יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 conj _ Gloss=day|Ref=PRO_8:34!9|MId=o200080340091|Strong=3117 14-15 לִ֝שְׁמֹ֗ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 לִ֝ לְ ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=by|Ref=PRO_8:34!10|MId=o200080340101|Strong=3807a 15 שְׁמֹ֗ר שָׁמַר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 7 conj _ Gloss=watching|Ref=PRO_8:34!10|MId=o200080340102|Strong=8104|Frame=A0:200080340021;|Type=infinitive_construct 16 מְזוּזֹ֥ת מְזוּזָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 15 obl _ Gloss=the.doorposts|Ref=PRO_8:34!11|MId=o200080340111|Strong=4201 17-18 פְּתָחָֽי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 פְּתָח פֶּתַח NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 16 compound:smixut _ Gloss=my.doorways|Ref=PRO_8:34!12|MId=o200080340121|Strong=6607 18 ָֽי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PRO_8:34!12|MId=o200080340122|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 19 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 18 punct _ Ref=PRO_8:34!12 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | שֹׁמֵעַֽ *\[who\] listens* | participle active · qal | אָדָם *\[is\] anyone* | | | | | שְׁקֹד *keeping watch* | infinitive construct · qal | אָדָם *\[is\] anyone* | | | | | שְׁמֹר *watching* | infinitive construct · qal | אָדָם *\[is\] anyone* | | | | 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} טוּבוֹי לְבַר נָשָׁא דְשָׁמֵעַ לִי וְנִשְׁקוֹד עַל אַסְקוּפָתַי בְּכָל יוֹמָא וְיוֹמָא לְמִנְטַר סִפֵּי דְתַרְעָא: 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. [Happy is the man that hearkeneth to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.237/) **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:235`. - ← previous: [Proverbs 8:33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.33/) - next →: [Proverbs 8:35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.35/) - ↑ back to [Proverbs 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/8/)