--- title: Psalms 140:5 — Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to make my steps slip. Who acts: you, violent man, steps, my. Psalms 140:5 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.140.5/) [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 140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/140/) / 140:5 # Psalms 140:5 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** you, violent man, steps, my · **What happens:** keep, preserve, purpose, make, slip, step · **To what, where:** me, hands, steps This is Psalms 140:5 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 — you, violent man, steps, my — and what happens in the verse to me, hands, steps, 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. שָׁמְרֵ֤נִי יְהוָ֨ה ׀ מִ֘ידֵ֤י רָשָׁ֗ע מֵאִ֣ישׁ חֲמָסִ֣ים תִּנְצְרֵ֑נִי אֲשֶׁ֥ר חָ֝שְׁב֗וּ לִדְח֥וֹת פְּעָמָֽי׃ [Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to make my steps slip.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2556/) ## 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:2392 # text = שָׁמְרֵ֤נִי יְהוָ֨ה ׀ מִ֘ידֵ֤י רָשָׁ֗ע מֵאִ֣ישׁ חֲמָסִ֣ים תִּנְצְרֵ֑נִי אֲשֶׁ֥ר חָ֝שְׁב֗וּ לִדְח֥וֹת פְּעָמָֽי׃ # verse = PSA.140.5 1-2 שָׁמְרֵ֤נִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 שָׁמְר שָׁמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 0 root _ Gloss=keep|Ref=PSA_140:5!1|MId=o191400050011|Strong=8104|Frame=A0:191400050021;A1:191400050012;|Type=imperative 2 ֵ֤נִי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ Gloss=me|Ref=PSA_140:5!1|MId=o191400050012|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal 3 יְהוָ֨ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 1 dislocated _ Gloss=O.Yahweh|Ref=PSA_140:5!2|MId=o191400050021|Strong=3068 4 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 3 punct _ Ref=PSA_140:5!2 5-6 מִ֘ידֵ֤י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 מִ֘ מִן ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=from.[the]|Ref=PSA_140:5!3|MId=o191400050031|Strong=4480 6 ידֵ֤י יָד NOUN _ Number=Dual 1 obl _ Gloss=hands|Ref=PSA_140:5!3|MId=o191400050032|Strong=3027 7 רָשָׁ֗ע רָשָׁע ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.[the].wicked|Ref=PSA_140:5!4|MId=o191400050041|Strong=7563|Type=adjective 8-9 מֵאִ֣ישׁ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 מֵ מִן ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=PSA_140:5!5|MId=o191400050051|Strong=4480 9 אִ֣ישׁ אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 obl _ Gloss=a.man|Ref=PSA_140:5!5|MId=o191400050052|Strong=0376 10 חֲמָסִ֣ים חָמָס NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.violence(s)|Ref=PSA_140:5!6|MId=o191400050061|Strong=2555 11-12 תִּנְצְרֵ֑נִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 תִּנְצְר נָצַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 1 parataxis _ Gloss=you|Ref=PSA_140:5!7|MId=o191400050071|Strong=5341|Frame=A0:191400050021;A1:191400050072;|Type=yiqtol 12 ֵ֑נִי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ Gloss=will.preserve.me|Ref=PSA_140:5!7|MId=o191400050072|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal 13 אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 14 mark _ Gloss=who|Ref=PSA_140:5!8|MId=o191400050081|Strong=0834|Type=relative 14 חָ֝שְׁב֗וּ חָשַׁב VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 1 parataxis _ Gloss=they.have.planned|Ref=PSA_140:5!9|MId=o191400050091|Strong=2803|Frame=A0:191400050041;191400050052;|Type=qatal 15-16 לִדְח֥וֹת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=PSA_140:5!10|MId=o191400050101|Strong=3807a 16 דְח֥וֹת דָּחָה VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 14 advcl _ Gloss=push.down|Ref=PSA_140:5!10|MId=o191400050102|Strong=1760|Frame=A0:191400050041;191400050052;A1:191400050111;|Type=infinitive_construct 17-18 פְּעָמָֽי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 פְּעָמ פַּעַם NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 16 obj _ Gloss=footsteps|Ref=PSA_140:5!11|MId=o191400050111|Strong=6471 18 ָֽי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_140:5!11|MId=o191400050112|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 19 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 18 punct _ Ref=PSA_140:5!11 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - speech: speech with no frame - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | שָׁמְר *keep* | imperative · qal | יְהוָה *O Yahweh* | ֵנִי *me* | | | | תִּנְצְר *you* | yiqtol · qal | יְהוָה *O Yahweh* | ֵנִי *will preserve me* | | | | חָשְׁבוּ *they have planned* | qatal · qal | רָשָׁע *of \[the\] wicked* + אִישׁ *a man* | | | | | דְחוֹת *push down* | infinitive construct · qal | רָשָׁע *of \[the\] wicked* + אִישׁ *a man* | פְּעָמ *footsteps* | | | 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} נְטוֹר יָתִי יְיָ מִן יַד דְרַשִׁיעַיָא מִן גְבַר חֲטוּפִין תִּנְטוֹר יָתִי דִי חֲשִׁילוּ לְמִנְקוֹף אִסְתַּוְרָי: 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. [Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to make my steps slip.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2556/) **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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