--- title: Psalms 35:4 — Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion that seek after my soul… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion that seek after my soul; let them be turned back and be abashed that devise my hurt. Who acts: you, spear, my. Psalms 35:4 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.35.4/) [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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/35/) / 35:4 # Psalms 35:4 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** you, spear, my · **What happens:** let, be, bring, seek, turn back, abash · **To what, where:** confusion, spear, hurt This is Psalms 35:4 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 — you, spear, my — and what happens in the verse to confusion, spear, hurt, 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. יֵבֹ֣שׁוּ וְיִכָּלְמוּ֮ מְבַקְשֵׁ֪י נַ֫פְשִׁ֥י יִסֹּ֣גוּ אָח֣וֹר וְיַחְפְּר֑וּ חֹ֝שְׁבֵ֗י רָעָתִֽי׃ [Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion that seek after my soul; let them be turned back and be abashed that devise my hurt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.533/) ## 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:490 # text = יֵבֹ֣שׁוּ וְיִכָּלְמוּ֮ מְבַקְשֵׁ֪י נַ֫פְשִׁ֥י יִסֹּ֣גוּ אָח֣וֹר וְיַחְפְּר֑וּ חֹ֝שְׁבֵ֗י רָעָתִֽי׃ # verse = PSA.35.4 1 יֵבֹ֣שׁוּ בּוֹשׁ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=may.they.be.ashamed|Ref=PSA_35:4!1|MId=o190350040011|Strong=0954|Frame=A0:190350040031;|Type=yiqtol 2-3 וְיִכָּלְמוּ֮ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 3 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_35:4!2|MId=o190350040021|Strong=2050b 3 יִכָּלְמוּ֮ כָּלַם VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 1 conj _ Gloss=may.they.be.humiliated|Ref=PSA_35:4!2|MId=o190350040022|Strong=3637|Frame=A0:190350040031;|Type=yiqtol 4 מְבַקְשֵׁ֪י בָּקַשׁ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Gloss=[those.who].seek|Ref=PSA_35:4!3|MId=o190350040031|Strong=1245|Frame=A1:190350040041;|Type=participle_active 5-6 נַ֫פְשִׁ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 נַ֫פְשׁ נֶפֶשׁ NOUN _ Number=Sing 4 compound:smixut _ Gloss=life|Ref=PSA_35:4!4|MId=o190350040041|Strong=5315 6 ִ֥י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ Gloss=(of).my|Ref=PSA_35:4!4|MId=o190350040042|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 7 יִסֹּ֣גוּ סוּג VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 1 parataxis _ Gloss=may.they.be.turned.back|Ref=PSA_35:4!5|MId=o190350040051|Strong=5472|Frame=A1:190350040081;|Type=yiqtol 8 אָח֣וֹר אָחוֹר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 obl _ Gloss=backwards|Ref=PSA_35:4!6|MId=o190350040061|Strong=0268 9-10 וְיַחְפְּר֑וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_35:4!7|MId=o190350040071|Strong=2050b 10 יַחְפְּר֑וּ חָפֵר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 7 conj _ Gloss=may.they.be.abashed|Ref=PSA_35:4!7|MId=o190350040072|Strong=2659|Frame=A0:190350040081;|Type=yiqtol 11 חֹ֝שְׁבֵ֗י חָשַׁב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ Gloss=[those.who].plot|Ref=PSA_35:4!8|MId=o190350040081|Strong=2803|Frame=A1:190350040091;|Type=participle_active 12-13 רָעָתִֽי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 רָעָת רָעָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 11 compound:smixut _ Gloss=harm|Ref=PSA_35:4!9|MId=o190350040091|Strong=7451b 13 ִֽי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ Gloss=(of).my|Ref=PSA_35:4!9|MId=o190350040092|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 14 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 13 punct _ Ref=PSA_35:4!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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֵבֹשׁוּ *may they be ashamed* | yiqtol · qal | מְבַקְשֵׁי *\[those who\] seek* | | | | | יִכָּלְמוּ *may they be humiliated* | yiqtol · niphal | מְבַקְשֵׁי *\[those who\] seek* | | | | | מְבַקְשֵׁי *\[those who\] seek* | participle active · piel | | נַפְשׁ *life* | | | | יִסֹּגוּ *may they be turned back* | yiqtol · niphal | | חֹשְׁבֵי *\[those who\] plot* | | | | יַחְפְּרוּ *may they be abashed* | yiqtol · qal | חֹשְׁבֵי *\[those who\] plot* | | | | | חֹשְׁבֵי *\[those who\] plot* | participle active · qal | | רָעָת *harm* | | | 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} יִבְהֲתוּן וְיִכְסְפוּן תָּבְעֵי נַפְשִׁי יִרְתְעוּן לַאֲחוֹרָא וְיִתְכַּנְעוּן חָשְׁלֵי בִישׁוּתִי: 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. [Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion that seek after my soul; let them be turned back and be abashed that devise my hurt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.533/) **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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