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title: 1 Kings 12:25 — Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and dwel… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and he went out from thence, and built Penuel. Who acts: Jeroboam. 1 Kings 12:25 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 12:25 מְלָכִים א

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**Who acts:** Jeroboam · **What happens:** build, dwell, go out · **To what, where:** Shechem, hill country, Penuel

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This is 1 Kings 12:25 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). 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 — Jeroboam — and what happens in the verse to Shechem, hill country, Penuel, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan 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 22 chapters of 1 Kings on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וַיִּ֨בֶן יָרָבְעָ֧ם אֶת־שְׁכֶ֛ם בְּהַ֥ר אֶפְרַ֖יִם וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב בָּ֑הּ וַיֵּצֵ֣א מִשָּׁ֔ם וַיִּ֖בֶן אֶת־פְּנוּאֵֽל׃

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[Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and he went out from thence, and built Penuel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.477/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:1KI:458
# text = וַיִּ֨בֶן יָרָבְעָ֧ם אֶת־שְׁכֶ֛ם בְּהַ֥ר אֶפְרַ֖יִם וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב בָּ֑הּ וַיֵּצֵ֣א מִשָּׁ֔ם וַיִּ֖בֶן אֶת־פְּנוּאֵֽל׃
# verse = 1KI.12.25
1-2	וַיִּ֨בֶן	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=1KI_12:25!1|MId=o110120250011|Strong=2050b
2	יִּ֨בֶן	בָּנָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.built|Ref=1KI_12:25!1|MId=o110120250012|Strong=1129|Frame=A0:110120250021;A1:110120250041;|Type=wayyiqtol
3	יָרָבְעָ֧ם	יָרָבְעָם	PROPN	_	_	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=Jeroboam|Ref=1KI_12:25!2|MId=o110120250021|Strong=3379
4	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	5	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=1KI_12:25!3|MId=o110120250031|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
5	שְׁכֶ֛ם	שְׁכֶם	PROPN	_	_	2	obj	_	Gloss=Shechem|Ref=1KI_12:25!4|MId=o110120250041|Strong=7927a
6-7	בְּהַ֥ר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=1KI_12:25!5|MId=o110120250051|Strong=0871a
7	הַ֥ר	הַר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Gloss=the.hill.country|Ref=1KI_12:25!5|MId=o110120250052|Strong=2022
8	אֶפְרַ֖יִם	אֶפְרַיִם	PROPN	_	_	7	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Ephraim|Ref=1KI_12:25!6|MId=o110120250061|Strong=0669
9-10	וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	10	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=1KI_12:25!7|MId=o110120250071|Strong=2050b
10	יֵּ֣שֶׁב	יָשַׁב	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=he.dwelt|Ref=1KI_12:25!7|MId=o110120250072|Strong=3427|Frame=A0:110120250021;|Type=wayyiqtol
11-12	בָּ֑הּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	בּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	12	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=1KI_12:25!8|MId=o110120250081|Strong=0871a
12	ָ֑הּ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	Gloss=it|Ref=1KI_12:25!8|MId=o110120250082|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal
13-14	וַיֵּצֵ֣א	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	14	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=1KI_12:25!9|MId=o110120250091|Strong=2050b
14	יֵּצֵ֣א	יָצָא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=he.went.out|Ref=1KI_12:25!9|MId=o110120250092|Strong=3318|Frame=A0:110120250021;|Type=wayyiqtol
15-16	מִשָּׁ֔ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
15	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	_	16	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=1KI_12:25!10|MId=o110120250101|Strong=4480
16	שָּׁ֔ם	שָׁם	ADV	_	_	14	obl	_	Gloss=there|Ref=1KI_12:25!10|MId=o110120250102|Strong=8033
17-18	וַיִּ֖בֶן	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	18	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=1KI_12:25!11|MId=o110120250111|Strong=2050b
18	יִּ֖בֶן	בָּנָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=he.built|Ref=1KI_12:25!11|MId=o110120250112|Strong=1129|Frame=A0:110120250021;A1:110120250131;|Type=wayyiqtol
19	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	20	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=1KI_12:25!12|MId=o110120250121|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
20	פְּנוּאֵֽל	פְּנוּאֵל	PROPN	_	_	18	obj	_	Gloss=Penuel|Ref=1KI_12:25!13|MId=o110120250131|Strong=6439a|SpaceAfter=No
21	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	20	punct	_	Ref=1KI_12:25!13
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יִּבֶן *he built* | wayyiqtol · qal | יָרָבְעָם *Jeroboam* | שְׁכֶם *Shechem* |  |  |
| יֵּשֶׁב *he dwelt* | wayyiqtol · qal | יָרָבְעָם *Jeroboam* |  |  |  |
| יֵּצֵא *he went out* | wayyiqtol · qal | יָרָבְעָם *Jeroboam* |  |  |  |
| יִּבֶן *he built* | wayyiqtol · qal | יָרָבְעָם *Jeroboam* | פְּנוּאֵֽל *Penuel* |  |  |

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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.

## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos}

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וּבְנָא יְרָבְעָם יַת שְׁכֶם בְּטוּרָא דְבֵית אֶפְרַיִם וִיתֵב בָּהּ וּנְפַק מִתַּמָן וּבְנָא יַת פְּנוּאֵל:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and he went out from thence, and built Penuel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.477/)

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**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).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:1KI:458`.

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