--- title: Psalms 73:28 — But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all Thy works. Who acts: nearness, I, Thy. Psalms 73:28 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.73.28/) [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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/73/) / 73:28 # Psalms 73:28 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** nearness, I, Thy · **What happens:** be, make, tell, work · **To what, where:** Lord GOD · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Psalms 73:28 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 — nearness, I, Thy — and what happens in the verse to Lord GOD, 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. וַאֲנִ֤י ׀ קִֽרֲבַ֥ת אֱלֹהִ֗ים לִ֫י־ט֥וֹב שַׁתִּ֤י ׀ בַּאדֹנָ֣י יְהֹוִ֣ה מַחְסִ֑י לְ֝סַפֵּ֗ר כָּל־מַלְאֲכוֹתֶֽיךָ׃ [But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all Thy works.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1249/) ## 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:1159 # text = וַאֲנִ֤י ׀ קִֽרֲבַ֥ת אֱלֹהִ֗ים לִ֫י־ט֥וֹב שַׁתִּ֤י ׀ בַּאדֹנָ֣י יְהֹוִ֣ה מַחְסִ֑י לְ֝סַפֵּ֗ר כָּל־מַלְאֲכוֹתֶֽיךָ׃ # verse = PSA.73.28 1-2 וַאֲנִ֤י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 8 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_73:28!1|MId=o190730280011|Strong=2050b 2 אֲנִ֤י אֲנִי PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 dislocated _ Gloss=I|Ref=PSA_73:28!1|MId=o190730280012|Strong=0589|Type=personal 3 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 2 punct _ Ref=PSA_73:28!1 4 קִֽרֲבַ֥ת קִרְבָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Gloss=the.approach|Ref=PSA_73:28!2|MId=o190730280021|Strong=7132 5 אֱלֹהִ֗ים אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 4 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.God|Ref=PSA_73:28!3|MId=o190730280031|Strong=0430 6-7 לִ֫י־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 ל לְ ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=PSA_73:28!4|MId=o190730280041|Strong=3807a 7 ִ֫י־ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ Gloss=me|Ref=PSA_73:28!4|MId=o190730280042|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 8 ט֥וֹב טוֹב ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=[is].good|Ref=PSA_73:28!5|MId=o190730280051|Strong=2896|Type=adjective 9 שַׁתִּ֤י שִׁית VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 8 parataxis _ Gloss=I.have.made|Ref=PSA_73:28!6|MId=o190730280061|Strong=7896|Frame=A0:190730010022;A1:190730280091;|Type=qatal 10 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 9 punct _ Ref=PSA_73:28!6 11-13 בַּאדֹנָ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 בַּ בְּ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=PSA_73:28!7|MId=o190730280071|Strong=0871a 12 אדֹנ אֲדֹנָי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 9 obl _ Gloss=[the]|Ref=PSA_73:28!7|MId=o190730280072|Strong=0136 13 ָ֣י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ Gloss=Lord|Ref=PSA_73:28!7|MId=o190730280073|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 14 יְהֹוִ֣ה יְהֹוִה PROPN _ _ 12 appos _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=PSA_73:28!8|MId=o190730280081|Strong=3069 15-16 מַחְסִ֑י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 מַחְס מַחְסֶּה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 obj _ Gloss=refuge|Ref=PSA_73:28!9|MId=o190730280091|Strong=4268 16 ִ֑י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_73:28!9|MId=o190730280092|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 17-18 לְ֝סַפֵּ֗ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 לְ֝ לְ ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=PSA_73:28!10|MId=o190730280101|Strong=3807a 18 סַפֵּ֗ר סָפַר VERB _ HebBinyan=PIEL 9 advcl _ Gloss=recount|Ref=PSA_73:28!10|MId=o190730280102|Strong=5608|Frame=A0:190730010022;A1:190730280121;|Type=infinitive_construct 19 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 obj _ Gloss=all|Ref=PSA_73:28!11|MId=o190730280111|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No 20-21 מַלְאֲכוֹתֶֽיךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 מַלְאֲכוֹתֶֽי מְלָאכָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 19 compound:smixut _ Gloss=works|Ref=PSA_73:28!12|MId=o190730280121|Strong=4399 21 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=PSA_73:28!12|MId=o190730280122|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=PSA_73:28!12 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | שַׁתִּי *I have made* | qatal · qal | | מַחְס *refuge* | | | | סַפֵּר *recount* | infinitive construct · piel | | מַלְאֲכוֹתֶֽי *works* | | | 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} וַאֲנָא לְמִקְרַב בַּיָי לִי טָב שַׁוְיֵת בַּיָי אֱלֹהִים רוּחְצָנִי לְאִשְׁתָּעַיָא לְצַדִיקַיָא כּוּלְהוֹן פִּקוּדֵי שְׁלִיחוּתָךְ: 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. [But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all Thy works.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1249/) **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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