--- title: Psalms 15:4 — In whose eyes a vile person is despised, but he honoureth them that… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: In whose eyes a vile person is despised, but he honoureth them that fear the LORD; he that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not; Who acts: person, LORD. Psalms 15:4 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.15.4/) [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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/15/) / 15:4 # Psalms 15:4 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** person, LORD · **What happens:** despise, honour, fear, swear, not change, hurt · **To what, where:** vile person, eyes, LORD This is Psalms 15:4 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 — person, LORD — and what happens in the verse to vile person, eyes, LORD, 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. נִבְזֶ֤ה ׀ בְּֽעֵ֘ינָ֤יו נִמְאָ֗ס וְאֶת־יִרְאֵ֣י יְהוָ֣ה יְכַבֵּ֑ד נִשְׁבַּ֥ע לְ֝הָרַ֗ע וְלֹ֣א יָמִֽר׃ [In whose eyes a vile person is despised, but he honoureth them that fear the LORD; he that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.180/) ## 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:159 # text = נִבְזֶ֤ה ׀ בְּֽעֵ֘ינָ֤יו נִמְאָ֗ס וְאֶת־יִרְאֵ֣י יְהוָ֣ה יְכַבֵּ֑ד נִשְׁבַּ֥ע לְ֝הָרַ֗ע וְלֹ֣א יָמִֽר׃ # verse = PSA.15.4 1 נִבְזֶ֤ה בָּזָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=[is].despised|Ref=PSA_15:4!1|MId=o190150040011|Strong=0959|Frame=A1:190150040031;|Type=participle_active 2 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 1 punct _ Ref=PSA_15:4!1 3-5 בְּֽעֵ֘ינָ֤יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 בְּֽ בְּ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=PSA_15:4!2|MId=o190150040021|Strong=0871a 4 עֵ֘ינָ֤י עַיִן NOUN _ Number=Dual 1 obl _ Gloss=eyes|Ref=PSA_15:4!2|MId=o190150040022|Strong=5869 5 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=PSA_15:4!2|MId=o190150040023|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 6 נִמְאָ֗ס מָאַס VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ Gloss=a.rejected.[person]|Ref=PSA_15:4!3|MId=o190150040031|Strong=3988|Type=participle_active 7-8 וְאֶת־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 11 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_15:4!4|MId=o190150040041|Strong=2050b 8 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=PSA_15:4!4|MId=o190150040042|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker 9 יִרְאֵ֣י יָרֵא ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 11 obj _ Gloss=[those].fearing|Ref=PSA_15:4!5|MId=o190150040051|Strong=3373|Type=adjective 10 יְהוָ֣ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=(of).Yahweh|Ref=PSA_15:4!6|MId=o190150040061|Strong=3068 11 יְכַבֵּ֑ד כָּבֵד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 1 conj _ Gloss=he.honors|Ref=PSA_15:4!7|MId=o190150040071|Strong=3513|Frame=A0:190150020052;A1:190150040051;|Type=yiqtol 12 נִשְׁבַּ֥ע שָׁבַע VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 1 parataxis _ Gloss=he.swears|Ref=PSA_15:4!8|MId=o190150040081|Strong=7650|Frame=A0:190150020052;|Type=qatal 13-14 לְ֝הָרַ֗ע _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 לְ֝ לְ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=PSA_15:4!9|MId=o190150040091|Strong=3807a 14 הָרַ֗ע רָעַע VERB _ HebBinyan=HIPHIL 12 xcomp _ Gloss=do.harm|Ref=PSA_15:4!9|MId=o190150040092|Strong=7489|Frame=A0:190150020052;|Type=infinitive_construct 15-16 וְלֹ֣א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 17 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_15:4!10|MId=o190150040101|Strong=2050b 16 לֹ֣א לֹא ADV _ _ 17 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=PSA_15:4!10|MId=o190150040102|Strong=3808|Type=negative 17 יָמִֽר מוּר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 1 conj _ Gloss=he.changes|Ref=PSA_15:4!11|MId=o190150040111|Strong=4171|Frame=A0:190150020052;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No 18 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 17 punct _ Ref=PSA_15:4!11 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | נִבְזֶה *\[is\] despised* | participle active · niphal | | נִמְאָס *a rejected \[person\]* | | | | יְכַבֵּד *he honors* | yiqtol · piel | | יִרְאֵי *\[those\] fearing* | | | | נִשְׁבַּע *he swears* | qatal · niphal | | | | | | הָרַע *do harm* | infinitive construct · hiphil | | | | | | **not** יָמִֽר *he changes* | yiqtol · hiphil | | | | | 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} דְשָׁט בְּאַנְפּוֹי וּבְסִיר וְיַת דַחֲלַיָא דַייָ מוֹקִיר דְיוֹמֵי לְאַבְאָשָׁא לְגַרְמֵיהּ וְלָא מְשַׁלְחָף: 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. [In whose eyes a vile person is despised, but he honoureth them that fear the LORD; he that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.180/) **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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