--- title: Psalms 91:4 — He will cover thee with His pinions, and under His wings shalt thou… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: He will cover thee with His pinions, and under His wings shalt thou take refuge; His truth is a shield and a buckler. Who acts: God, thou, truth. Psalms 91:4 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.91.4/) [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 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/91/) / 91:4 # Psalms 91:4 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** God, thou, truth · **What happens:** cover, take, be · **To what, where:** thee, refuge, wings, shield This is Psalms 91:4 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 — God, thou, truth — and what happens in the verse to thee, refuge, wings, shield, 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. בְּאֶבְרָת֨וֹ ׀ יָ֣סֶךְ לָ֭ךְ וְתַֽחַת־כְּנָפָ֣יו תֶּחְסֶ֑ה צִנָּ֖ה וְֽסֹחֵרָ֣ה אֲמִתּֽוֹ׃ [He will cover thee with His pinions, and under His wings shalt thou take refuge; His truth is a shield and a buckler.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1639/) ## 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:1520 # text = בְּאֶבְרָת֨וֹ ׀ יָ֣סֶךְ לָ֭ךְ וְתַֽחַת־כְּנָפָ֣יו תֶּחְסֶ֑ה צִנָּ֖ה וְֽסֹחֵרָ֣ה אֲמִתּֽוֹ׃ # verse = PSA.91.4 1-3 בְּאֶבְרָת֨וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 2 case _ Gloss=with|Ref=PSA_91:4!1|MId=o190910040011|Strong=0871a 2 אֶבְרָת אֶבְרָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 5 obl _ Gloss=pinion|Ref=PSA_91:4!1|MId=o190910040012|Strong=0084 3 ֨וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=PSA_91:4!1|MId=o190910040013|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 4 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 3 punct _ Ref=PSA_91:4!1 5 יָ֣סֶךְ סָכַךְ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.will.cover|Ref=PSA_91:4!2|MId=o190910040021|Strong=5526|Frame=A0:190910020022;|Type=yiqtol 6-7 לָ֭ךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 לָ֭ לְ ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=(to)|Ref=PSA_91:4!3|MId=o190910040031|Strong=3807a 7 ךְ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ Gloss=you|Ref=PSA_91:4!3|MId=o190910040032|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 8-9 וְתַֽחַת־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 12 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_91:4!4|MId=o190910040041|Strong=2050b 9 תַֽחַת־ תַּחַת NOUN _ _ 12 obl _ Gloss=under|Ref=PSA_91:4!4|MId=o190910040042|Strong=8478 10-11 כְּנָפָ֣יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 כְּנָפָ֣י כָּנָף NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=wings|Ref=PSA_91:4!5|MId=o190910040051|Strong=3671 11 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=PSA_91:4!5|MId=o190910040052|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 12 תֶּחְסֶ֑ה חָסָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 5 conj _ Gloss=you.will.take.refuge|Ref=PSA_91:4!6|MId=o190910040061|Strong=2620|Frame=A0:190910030032;|Type=yiqtol 13 צִנָּ֖ה צִנָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Gloss=[is].a.shield|Ref=PSA_91:4!7|MId=o190910040071|Strong=6793a 14-15 וְֽסֹחֵרָ֣ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 וְֽ וְ CCONJ _ _ 15 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_91:4!8|MId=o190910040081|Strong=2050b 15 סֹחֵרָ֣ה סֹחֵרָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 13 conj _ Gloss=a.wall|Ref=PSA_91:4!8|MId=o190910040082|Strong=5507 16-17 אֲמִתּֽוֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 אֲמִתּ אֱמֶת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Gloss=faithfulness|Ref=PSA_91:4!9|MId=o190910040091|Strong=0571 17 ֽוֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=PSA_91:4!9|MId=o190910040092|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 18 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 17 punct _ Ref=PSA_91:4!9 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יָסֶךְ *he will cover* | yiqtol · hiphil | | | | | | תֶּחְסֶה *you will take refuge* | yiqtol · 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} בִּטְלַל שְׁכִנְתֵּיהּ יַטְלַל עֲלָךְ וּתְחוֹת טְלַל יְקָרֵיהּ תִּתְרְחֵץ תְּרִיסָא וַעֲגִילָא הֵימְנוּתֵיהּ: 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. [He will cover thee with His pinions, and under His wings shalt thou take refuge; His truth is a shield and a buckler.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1639/) **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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