--- title: Psalms 138:4 — All the kings of the earth shall give Thee thanks, O LORD, for they… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: All the kings of the earth shall give Thee thanks, O LORD, for they have heard the words of Thy mouth. Who acts: kings. Psalms 138:4 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/PSA.138.4/) [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/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/138/) / 138:4 # Psalms 138:4 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** kings · **What happens:** give, hear, word · **To what, where:** thanks, Thee, words, mouth This is Psalms 138:4 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 — kings — and what happens in the verse to thanks, Thee, words, mouth, 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 150 chapters of Psalms on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. יוֹד֣וּךָ יְ֭הוָה כָּל־מַלְכֵי־אָ֑רֶץ כִּ֥י שָׁ֝מְע֗וּ אִמְרֵי־פִֽיךָ׃ [All the kings of the earth shall give Thee thanks, O LORD, for they have heard the words of Thy mouth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2518/) ## 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:PSA:2359 # text = יוֹד֣וּךָ יְ֭הוָה כָּל־מַלְכֵי־אָ֑רֶץ כִּ֥י שָׁ֝מְע֗וּ אִמְרֵי־פִֽיךָ׃ # verse = PSA.138.4 1-2 יוֹד֣וּךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 יוֹד֣וּ יָדָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they|Ref=PSA_138:4!1|MId=o191380040011|Strong=3034|Frame=A0:191380040012;AA:191380040041;|Type=yiqtol 2 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ Gloss=will.give.thanks.to.you|Ref=PSA_138:4!1|MId=o191380040012|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 3 יְ֭הוָה יהוה PROPN _ _ 1 dislocated _ Gloss=O.Yahweh|Ref=PSA_138:4!2|MId=o191380040021|Strong=3068 4 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ Gloss=all|Ref=PSA_138:4!3|MId=o191380040031|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No 5 מַלְכֵי־ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 4 compound:smixut _ Gloss=[the].kings|Ref=PSA_138:4!4|MId=o191380040041|Strong=4428|SpaceAfter=No 6 אָ֑רֶץ אֶרֶץ NOUN _ Number=Sing 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.[the].earth|Ref=PSA_138:4!5|MId=o191380040051|Strong=0776 7 כִּ֥י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 8 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=PSA_138:4!6|MId=o191380040061|Strong=3588 8 שָׁ֝מְע֗וּ שָׁמַע VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 1 advcl _ Gloss=they.have.heard|Ref=PSA_138:4!7|MId=o191380040071|Strong=8085|Frame=A0:191380040041;A1:191380040081;|Type=qatal 9 אִמְרֵי־ אֵמֶר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 8 obj _ Gloss=the.words|Ref=PSA_138:4!8|MId=o191380040081|Strong=0561|SpaceAfter=No 10-11 פִֽיךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 פִֽי פֶּה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=your.mouth|Ref=PSA_138:4!9|MId=o191380040091|Strong=6310 11 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=PSA_138:4!9|MId=o191380040092|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 12 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 11 punct _ Ref=PSA_138:4!9 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יוֹדוּ *they* | yiqtol · hiphil | ךָ *will give thanks to you* | | | מַלְכֵי־ *\[the\] kings* | | שָׁמְעוּ *they have heard* | qatal · qal | מַלְכֵי־ *\[the\] kings* | אִמְרֵי־ *the words* | | | 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} יוֹדוּן קֳדָמָךְ יְיָ כָּל מַלְכֵי אַרְעָא אֲרוּם שְׁמַעוּ מֵימְרֵי תוּשְׁבַּחְתָּךְ: 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. [All the kings of the earth shall give Thee thanks, O LORD, for they have heard the words of Thy mouth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2518/) **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). 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