--- title: Psalms 8:3 — Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast Thou founded strength,… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast Thou founded strength, because of Thine adversaries; that Thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. Who acts: Thou. Psalms 8:3 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.8.3/) [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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/8/) / 8:3 # Psalms 8:3 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** found, still · **To what, where:** strength, mouth This is Psalms 8:3 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 — Thou — and what happens in the verse to strength, mouth, 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. מִפִּ֤י עֽוֹלְלִ֨ים ׀ וְֽיֹנְקִים֮ יִסַּ֪דְתָּ֫ עֹ֥ז לְמַ֥עַן צוֹרְרֶ֑יךָ לְהַשְׁבִּ֥ית א֝וֹיֵ֗ב וּמִתְנַקֵּֽם׃ [Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast Thou founded strength, because of Thine adversaries; that Thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.87/) ## 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:80 # text = מִפִּ֤י עֽוֹלְלִ֨ים ׀ וְֽיֹנְקִים֮ יִסַּ֪דְתָּ֫ עֹ֥ז לְמַ֥עַן צוֹרְרֶ֑יךָ לְהַשְׁבִּ֥ית א֝וֹיֵ֗ב וּמִתְנַקֵּֽם׃ # verse = PSA.8.3 1-2 מִפִּ֤י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 2 case _ Gloss=from.[the]|Ref=PSA_8:3!1|MId=o190080030011|Strong=4480 2 פִּ֤י פֶּה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 obl _ Gloss=mouth|Ref=PSA_8:3!1|MId=o190080030012|Strong=6310 3 עֽוֹלְלִ֨ים עוֹלֵל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.children|Ref=PSA_8:3!2|MId=o190080030021|Strong=5768 4 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 3 punct _ Ref=PSA_8:3!2 5-6 וְֽיֹנְקִים֮ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 וְֽ וְ CCONJ _ _ 6 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_8:3!3|MId=o190080030031|Strong=2050b 6 יֹנְקִים֮ יָנַק NOUN _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 3 conj _ Gloss=sucking.children|Ref=PSA_8:3!3|MId=o190080030032|Strong=3126|Type=participle_active 7 יִסַּ֪דְתָּ֫ יָסַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=2 0 root _ Gloss=you.have.established|Ref=PSA_8:3!4|MId=o190080030041|Strong=3245|Frame=A0:190080020011;A1:190080030051;|Type=qatal 8 עֹ֥ז עֹז NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 obj _ Gloss=strength|Ref=PSA_8:3!5|MId=o190080030051|Strong=5797 9 לְמַ֥עַן לְמַעַן ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=on.account.of|Ref=PSA_8:3!6|MId=o190080030061|Strong=4616 10-11 צוֹרְרֶ֑יךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 צוֹרְרֶ֑י צָרַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 7 advcl _ Gloss=foes|Ref=PSA_8:3!7|MId=o190080030071|Strong=6887a|Type=participle_active 11 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=PSA_8:3!7|MId=o190080030072|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 12-13 לְהַשְׁבִּ֥ית _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=PSA_8:3!8|MId=o190080030081|Strong=3807a 13 הַשְׁבִּ֥ית שָׁבַת VERB _ HebBinyan=HIPHIL 7 advcl _ Gloss=put.an.end.to|Ref=PSA_8:3!8|MId=o190080030082|Strong=7673|Frame=AA:190080020011;A0:190080030091;190080030102;|Type=infinitive_construct 14 א֝וֹיֵ֗ב אָיַב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 13 obj _ Gloss=an.enemy|Ref=PSA_8:3!9|MId=o190080030091|Strong=0341|Type=participle_active 15-16 וּמִתְנַקֵּֽם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_8:3!10|MId=o190080030101|Strong=2050b 16 מִתְנַקֵּֽם נָקַם VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HITHPAEL|Number=Sing 14 conj _ Gloss=an.avenger|Ref=PSA_8:3!10|MId=o190080030102|Strong=5358|Type=participle_active 17 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 16 punct _ Ref=PSA_8:3!10 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִסַּדְתָּ *you have established* | qatal · piel | | עֹז *strength* | | | | הַשְׁבִּית *put an end to* | infinitive construct · hiphil | אוֹיֵב *an enemy* + מִתְנַקֵּֽם *an avenger* | | | | 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} מִפּוּם עוּלֵמַיָא וְיוֹנְקַיָא אִשְׁתֵּסְתָּא עוֹשָׁנָא מִן בִּגְלַל מְעִיקָיִךְ לְבַטָלָא בְּעֵיל דְבָבָא וְגָזוֹמָא: 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. [Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast Thou founded strength, because of Thine adversaries; that Thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.87/) **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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