--- title: Psalms 27:8 — In Thy behalf my heart hath said: 'Seek ye My face'; Thy face, LORD,… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: In Thy behalf my heart hath said: 'Seek ye My face'; Thy face, LORD, will I seek. Who acts: heart, ye, I. Psalms 27:8 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.27.8/) [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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/27/) / 27:8 # Psalms 27:8 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** heart, ye, I · **What happens:** say, seek · **To what, where:** behalf, face · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Psalms 27:8 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 — heart, ye, I — and what happens in the verse to behalf, face, 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. לְךָ֤ ׀ אָמַ֣ר לִ֭בִּי בַּקְּשׁ֣וּ פָנָ֑י אֶת־פָּנֶ֖יךָ יְהוָ֣ה אֲבַקֵּֽשׁ׃ [In Thy behalf my heart hath said: 'Seek ye My face'; Thy face, LORD, will I seek.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.403/) ## 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:366 # text = לְךָ֤ ׀ אָמַ֣ר לִ֭בִּי בַּקְּשׁ֣וּ פָנָ֑י אֶת־פָּנֶ֖יךָ יְהוָ֣ה אֲבַקֵּֽשׁ׃ # verse = PSA.27.8 1-2 לְךָ֤ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 ל לְ ADP _ _ 2 case _ Gloss=of|Ref=PSA_27:8!1|MId=o190270080011|Strong=3807a 2 ְךָ֤ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ Gloss=you|Ref=PSA_27:8!1|MId=o190270080012|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 3 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 2 punct _ Ref=PSA_27:8!1 4 אָמַ֣ר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=it.has.said|Ref=PSA_27:8!2|MId=o190270080021|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:190270080031;|Type=qatal 5-6 לִ֭בִּי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 לִ֭בּ לֵב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Gloss=heart|Ref=PSA_27:8!3|MId=o190270080031|Strong=3820 6 ִי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_27:8!3|MId=o190270080032|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 7 בַּקְּשׁ֣וּ בָּקַשׁ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur|Person=2 4 ccomp _ Gloss=seek|Ref=PSA_27:8!4|MId=o190270080041|Strong=1245|Frame=A0:190270010012;A1:190270080051;|Type=imperative 8-9 פָנָ֑י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 פָנ פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 7 obj _ Gloss=face|Ref=PSA_27:8!5|MId=o190270080051|Strong=6440 9 ָ֑י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_27:8!5|MId=o190270080052|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 10 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=PSA_27:8!6|MId=o190270080061|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 11-12 פָּנֶ֖יךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 פָּנֶ֖י פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 14 obj _ Gloss=face|Ref=PSA_27:8!7|MId=o190270080071|Strong=6440 12 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=PSA_27:8!7|MId=o190270080072|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 13 יְהוָ֣ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 14 parataxis _ Gloss=O.Yahweh|Ref=PSA_27:8!8|MId=o190270080081|Strong=3068 14 אֲבַקֵּֽשׁ בָּקַשׁ VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=1 7 parataxis _ Gloss=I.will.seek|Ref=PSA_27:8!9|MId=o190270080091|Strong=1245|Frame=A0:190270010012;A1:190270080071;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No 15 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 14 punct _ Ref=PSA_27:8!9 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · assert · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | אָמַר *it has said* | qatal · qal | לִבּ *heart* | | | | | בַּקְּשׁוּ *seek* | imperative · piel | | פָנ *face* | | | | אֲבַקֵּֽשׁ *I will seek* | yiqtol · piel | | פָּנֶי *face* | | | 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} לָךְ אֲמַר לִבִּי בְּעֵי אַפָּי יַת סְבַר אַפָּךְ יְיָ אֶתְבַּע: 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 Thy behalf my heart hath said: 'Seek ye My face'; Thy face, LORD, will I seek.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.403/) **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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