--- title: Psalms 84:11 — For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand; I had rather stan… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand; I had rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. Who acts: day, I. Psalms 84:11 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.84.11/) [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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/84/) / 84:11 # Psalms 84:11 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** day, I · **What happens:** be, stand, dwell · **To what, where:** threshold, tents This is Psalms 84:11 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 — day, I — and what happens in the verse to threshold, tents, 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. כִּ֤י טֽוֹב־י֥וֹם בַּחֲצֵרֶ֗יךָ מֵ֫אָ֥לֶף בָּחַ֗רְתִּי הִ֭סְתּוֹפֵף בְּבֵ֣ית אֱלֹהַ֑י מִ֝דּ֗וּר בְּאָהֳלֵי־רֶֽשַׁע׃ [For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand; I had rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1494/) ## 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:1387 # text = כִּ֤י טֽוֹב־י֥וֹם בַּחֲצֵרֶ֗יךָ מֵ֫אָ֥לֶף בָּחַ֗רְתִּי הִ֭סְתּוֹפֵף בְּבֵ֣ית אֱלֹהַ֑י מִ֝דּ֗וּר בְּאָהֳלֵי־רֶֽשַׁע׃ # verse = PSA.84.11 1 כִּ֤י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 2 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=PSA_84:11!1|MId=o190840110011|Strong=3588 2 טֽוֹב־ טוֹב ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=[is].good|Ref=PSA_84:11!2|MId=o190840110021|Strong=2896|Type=adjective|SpaceAfter=No 3 י֥וֹם יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Gloss=a.day|Ref=PSA_84:11!3|MId=o190840110031|Strong=3117 4-6 בַּחֲצֵרֶ֗יךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 בַּ בְּ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=PSA_84:11!4|MId=o190840110041|Strong=0871a 5 חֲצֵרֶ֗י חָצֵר NOUN _ Number=Plur 3 nmod _ Gloss=courts|Ref=PSA_84:11!4|MId=o190840110042|Strong=2691 6 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=PSA_84:11!4|MId=o190840110043|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 7-8 מֵ֫אָ֥לֶף _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 מֵ֫ מִן ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=more|Ref=PSA_84:11!5|MId=o190840110051|Strong=4480 8 אָ֥לֶף אֶלֶף NUM _ Number=Sing 2 obl _ Gloss=than.a.thousand|Ref=PSA_84:11!5|MId=o190840110052|Strong=0505|Type=cardinal_number 9 בָּחַ֗רְתִּי בָּחַר VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 2 parataxis _ Gloss=I.have.chosen|Ref=PSA_84:11!6|MId=o190840110061|Strong=0977|Frame=A0:190840010042;A1:190840110071;|Type=qatal 10 הִ֭סְתּוֹפֵף סָפַף VERB _ _ 9 obj _ Gloss=to.stand.at.the.threshold|Ref=PSA_84:11!7|MId=o190840110071|Strong=5605|Frame=A0:190840010042;|Type=infinitive_construct 11-12 בְּבֵ֣ית _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=PSA_84:11!8|MId=o190840110081|Strong=0871a 12 בֵ֣ית בַּיִת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 obl _ Gloss=the.house|Ref=PSA_84:11!8|MId=o190840110082|Strong=1004 13-14 אֱלֹהַ֑י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 אֱלֹה אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 12 compound:smixut _ Gloss=my.God|Ref=PSA_84:11!9|MId=o190840110091|Strong=0430 14 ַ֑י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_84:11!9|MId=o190840110092|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 15-16 מִ֝דּ֗וּר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 מִ֝ מִן ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=more|Ref=PSA_84:11!10|MId=o190840110101|Strong=4480 16 דּ֗וּר דּוּר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 9 xcomp _ Gloss=than.to.dwell|Ref=PSA_84:11!10|MId=o190840110102|Strong=1752a|Frame=A0:190840010042;|Type=infinitive_construct 17-18 בְּאָהֳלֵי־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=in.[the]|Ref=PSA_84:11!11|MId=o190840110111|Strong=0871a 18 אָהֳלֵי־ אֹהֶל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 16 obl _ Gloss=tents|Ref=PSA_84:11!11|MId=o190840110112|Strong=0168 19 רֶֽשַׁע רֶשַׁע NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.wickedness|Ref=PSA_84:11!12|MId=o190840110121|Strong=7562|SpaceAfter=No 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=PSA_84:11!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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | בָּחַרְתִּי *I have chosen* | qatal · qal | | הִסְתּוֹפֵף *to stand at the threshold* | | | | הִסְתּוֹפֵף *to stand at the threshold* | infinitive construct | | | | | | דּוּר *than to dwell* | infinitive construct · qal | | | | | 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} אֲרוּם טָב לְמִתַּב יוֹמָא חָד בְּדָרַת מַקְדְשָׁךְ מִן אָלֶף בְּגָלוּתָא בְּחַרֵת לְאִדְבָּקָא בְּבֵית מַקְדָשׁ אֱלָהָא מִן לְמֵדָר בְּמַשְׁכְּנֵי רַשִׁיעָא: 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. [For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand; I had rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1494/) **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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