--- title: Psalms 68:17 — Why look ye askance, ye mountains of peaks, at the mountain which Go… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Why look ye askance, ye mountains of peaks, at the mountain which God hath desired for His abode? Yea, the LORD will dwell therein for ever. Who acts: ye, God, LORD. Psalms 68:17 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.68.17/) [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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/68/) / 68:17 # Psalms 68:17 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** ye, God, LORD · **What happens:** look, desire, dwell · **To what, where:** mountain This is Psalms 68:17 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 — ye, God, LORD — and what happens in the verse to mountain, 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. לָ֤מָּה ׀ תְּֽרַצְּדוּן֮ הָרִ֪ים גַּבְנֻ֫נִּ֥ים הָהָ֗ר חָמַ֣ד אֱלֹהִ֣ים לְשִׁבְתּ֑וֹ אַף־יְ֝הוָ֗ה יִשְׁכֹּ֥ן לָנֶֽצַח׃ [Why look ye askance, ye mountains of peaks, at the mountain which God hath desired for His abode?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1106/) [Yea, the LORD will dwell therein for ever.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1107/) ## 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:1025 # text = לָ֤מָּה ׀ תְּֽרַצְּדוּן֮ הָרִ֪ים גַּבְנֻ֫נִּ֥ים הָהָ֗ר חָמַ֣ד אֱלֹהִ֣ים לְשִׁבְתּ֑וֹ אַף־יְ֝הוָ֗ה יִשְׁכֹּ֥ן לָנֶֽצַח׃ # verse = PSA.68.17 1-2 לָ֤מָּה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 לָ֤ לָמָה ADP _ _ 2 case _ Gloss=|Ref=PSA_68:17!1|MId=o190680170011|Strong=3807a 2 מָּה מָה PRON _ PronType=Int 4 obl _ Gloss=why?|Ref=PSA_68:17!1|MId=o190680170012|Strong=4100|Type=interrogative 3 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 2 punct _ Ref=PSA_68:17!1 4-5 תְּֽרַצְּדוּן֮ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 תְּֽרַצְּדוּ רָצַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur|Person=2 0 root _ Gloss=do|Ref=PSA_68:17!2|MId=o190680170021|Strong=7520|Frame=A0:190680170031;A1:190680170052;|Type=yiqtol 5 ן֮ נ X _ _ 4 nmod _ Gloss=you.watch.with.envy|Ref=PSA_68:17!2|MId=o190680170022|Strong=4993b|Type=paragogic_nun 6 הָרִ֪ים הַר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 4 dislocated _ Gloss=O.mountains|Ref=PSA_68:17!3|MId=o190680170031|Strong=2022 7 גַּבְנֻ֫נִּ֥ים גַּבְנֹן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 6 appos _ Gloss=peaks|Ref=PSA_68:17!4|MId=o190680170041|Strong=1386 8-9 הָהָ֗ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 9 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=PSA_68:17!5|MId=o190680170051|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 9 הָ֗ר הַר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 obj _ Gloss=mountain|Ref=PSA_68:17!5|MId=o190680170052|Strong=2022 10 חָמַ֣ד חָמַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 9 acl _ Gloss=[which].he.desired|Ref=PSA_68:17!6|MId=o190680170061|Strong=2530|Frame=A0:190680170071;A1:190680170052;|Type=qatal 11 אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ Gloss=God|Ref=PSA_68:17!7|MId=o190680170071|Strong=0430 12-14 לְשִׁבְתּ֑וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=he|Ref=PSA_68:17!8|MId=o190680170081|Strong=3807a 13 שִׁבְתּ יָשַׁב VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 10 advcl _ Gloss=to|Ref=PSA_68:17!8|MId=o190680170082|Strong=3427|Frame=A0:190680170083;|Type=infinitive_construct 14 ֑וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ Gloss=dwell.in|Ref=PSA_68:17!8|MId=o190680170083|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 15 אַף־ אַף ADV _ _ 16 advmod _ Gloss=also|Ref=PSA_68:17!9|MId=o190680170091|Strong=0637|Type=affirmation|SpaceAfter=No 16 יְ֝הוָ֗ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 17 nsubj _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=PSA_68:17!10|MId=o190680170101|Strong=3068 17 יִשְׁכֹּ֥ן שָׁכַן VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 4 parataxis _ Gloss=he.will.dwell|Ref=PSA_68:17!11|MId=o190680170111|Strong=7931|Frame=A0:190680170101;|Type=yiqtol 18-19 לָנֶֽצַח _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 לָ לְ ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=PSA_68:17!12|MId=o190680170121|Strong=3807a 19 נֶֽצַח נֵצַח NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 17 obl _ Gloss=perpetuity|Ref=PSA_68:17!12|MId=o190680170122|Strong=5331 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=PSA_68:17!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no - indirect: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | תְּֽרַצְּדוּ *do* | yiqtol · piel | הָרִים *O mountains* | הָר *mountain* | | | | חָמַד *\[which\] he desired* | qatal · qal | אֱלֹהִים *God* | הָר *mountain* | | | | שִׁבְתּ *to* | infinitive construct · qal | וֹ *dwell in* | | | | | יִשְׁכֹּן *he will dwell* | yiqtol · qal | יְהוָה *Yahweh* | | | | 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} אֲמַר אֱלָהָא לְמָה אַתּוּן טָפְזִין טוּרַיָא לֵית רַעֲוָתִי לְמִתַּן אוֹרַיְתָא עַל טוּרַיָא גֵיוְתָנִין מְבַסְרָנַיָא הָא טוּר סִינַי דְמַכִּיךְ רַגֵג מֵימְרָא דַייָ לְאַשְׁרָאָה עֲלוֹי שְׁכִינְתֵּיהּ לְחוֹד בִּשְׁמֵי שְׁמַיָא יְיָ יִשְׁרֵי לְעָלְמָא: 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. [Why look ye askance, ye mountains of peaks, at the mountain which God hath desired for His abode?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1106/) 2. [Yea, the LORD will dwell therein for ever.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1107/) **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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