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title: Psalms 53:6 — There are they in great fear, where no fear was; for God hath scatte… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: There are they in great fear, where no fear was; for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee; Thou hast put them to shame, because God hath rejected them. Who acts: workers, God, bones, Thou. Psalms 53:6 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmat
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# Psalms 53:6 תְּהִלִּים

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**Who acts:** workers, God, bones, Thou · **What happens:** be, scatter, encamp, put, reject · **To what, where:** great fear, bones, workers

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This is Psalms 53:6 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 — workers, God, bones, Thou — and what happens in the verse to great fear, bones, workers, 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.

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שָׁ֤ם ׀ פָּֽחֲדוּ־פַחַד֮ לֹא־הָ֪יָה֫ פָ֥חַד כִּֽי־אֱלֹהִ֗ים פִּ֭זַּר עַצְמ֣וֹת חֹנָ֑ךְ הֱ֝בִשֹׁ֗תָה כִּֽי־אֱלֹהִ֥ים מְאָסָֽם׃

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[There are they in great fear, where no fear was; for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee; Thou hast put them to shame, because God hath rejected them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.880/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:817
# text = שָׁ֤ם ׀ פָּֽחֲדוּ־פַחַד֮ לֹא־הָ֪יָה֫ פָ֥חַד כִּֽי־אֱלֹהִ֗ים פִּ֭זַּר עַצְמ֣וֹת חֹנָ֑ךְ הֱ֝בִשֹׁ֗תָה כִּֽי־אֱלֹהִ֥ים מְאָסָֽם׃
# verse = PSA.53.6
1	שָׁ֤ם	שָׁם	ADV	_	_	3	advmod	_	Gloss=there|Ref=PSA_53:6!1|MId=o190530060011|Strong=8033
2	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	_	1	punct	_	Ref=PSA_53:6!1
3	פָּֽחֲדוּ־	פָּחַד	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=they.fear|Ref=PSA_53:6!2|MId=o190530060021|Strong=6342|Frame=A0:190530050051;|Type=qatal|SpaceAfter=No
4	פַחַד֮	פַּחַד	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Gloss=a.fear|Ref=PSA_53:6!3|MId=o190530060031|Strong=6343
5	לֹא־	לֹא	ADV	_	_	6	advmod	_	Gloss=not|Ref=PSA_53:6!4|MId=o190530060041|Strong=3808|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No
6	הָ֪יָה֫	הָיָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	parataxis	_	Gloss=it.is|Ref=PSA_53:6!5|MId=o190530060051|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:190530060061;|Type=qatal
7	פָ֥חַד	פַּחַד	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Gloss=fear|Ref=PSA_53:6!6|MId=o190530060061|Strong=6343
8	כִּֽי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	10	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=PSA_53:6!7|MId=o190530060071|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No
9	אֱלֹהִ֗ים	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	Gloss=God|Ref=PSA_53:6!8|MId=o190530060081|Strong=0430
10	פִּ֭זַּר	פָּזַר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	advcl	_	Gloss=he.has.scattered|Ref=PSA_53:6!9|MId=o190530060091|Strong=6340|Frame=A0:190530060081;A1:190530060101;|Type=qatal
11	עַצְמ֣וֹת	עַצְמָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	10	obj	_	Gloss=the.bones|Ref=PSA_53:6!10|MId=o190530060101|Strong=6106
12-13	חֹנָ֑ךְ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	חֹנ	חָנָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing	11	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of|Ref=PSA_53:6!11|MId=o190530060111|Strong=2583|Frame=A0:190530050051;|Type=participle_active
13	ָ֑ךְ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=[one.who].encamped.against.you|Ref=PSA_53:6!11|MId=o190530060112|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal
14	הֱ֝בִשֹׁ֗תָה	בּוֹשׁ	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=2	3	parataxis	_	Gloss=you.have.put.[them].to.shame|Ref=PSA_53:6!12|MId=o190530060121|Strong=0954|Frame=AA:190530050061;A0:190530060111;|Type=qatal
15	כִּֽי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	17	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=PSA_53:6!13|MId=o190530060131|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No
16	אֱלֹהִ֥ים	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	Gloss=God|Ref=PSA_53:6!14|MId=o190530060141|Strong=0430
17-18	מְאָסָֽם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	מְאָס	מָאַס	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	advcl	_	Gloss=he|Ref=PSA_53:6!15|MId=o190530060151|Strong=3988|Frame=A0:190530060141;A1:190530060152;|Type=qatal
18	ָֽם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	Gloss=has.rejected.them|Ref=PSA_53:6!15|MId=o190530060152|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
19	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	18	punct	_	Ref=PSA_53:6!15
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: yes

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| פָּֽחֲדוּ־ *they fear* | qatal · qal |  |  |  |  |
| **not** הָיָה *it is* | qatal · qal | פָחַד *fear* |  |  |  |
| פִּזַּר *he has scattered* | qatal · piel | אֱלֹהִים *God* | עַצְמוֹת *the bones* |  |  |
| חֹנ *of* | participle active · qal |  |  |  |  |
| הֱבִשֹׁתָה *you have put \[them\] to shame* | qatal · hiphil | חֹנ *of* |  |  |  |
| מְאָס *he* | qatal · qal | אֱלֹהִים *God* | ָֽם *has rejected them* |  |  |

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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}

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תַּמָן דְלַחוּ דְלוֹחָא מִן פְּסִילֵיהוֹן דְלֵית בְּהוֹן צְרוֹךְ לְמִדְלַח אֲרוּם אֱלָהָא מְבַדַר תְּקוֹף מַשִׁרְיָת חַיָבַיָא בְּהִתְתָא אֲרוּם מֵימְרָא דַייָ לָא רָחֲקִינוּן:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [There are they in great fear, where no fear was; for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee; Thou hast put them to shame, because God hath rejected them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.880/)

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**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).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:PSA:817`.

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