--- title: 1 Kings 3:8 — And Thy servant is in the midst of Thy people which Thou hast chosen… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Thy servant is in the midst of Thy people which Thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. Who acts: servant, Thou. 1 Kings 3:8 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, 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/neviim/1KI.3.8/) [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/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [1 Kings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/) / [chapter 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI/3/) / 3:8 # 1 Kings 3:8 מְלָכִים א **Who acts:** servant, Thou · **What happens:** be, choose, not number, count · **To what, where:** midst, people, great people This is 1 Kings 3:8 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 — servant, Thou — and what happens in the verse to midst, people, great people, 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. וְעַ֨בְדְּךָ֔ בְּת֥וֹךְ עַמְּךָ֖ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בָּחָ֑רְתָּ עַם־רָ֕ב אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא־יִמָּנֶ֛ה וְלֹ֥א יִסָּפֵ֖ר מֵרֹֽב׃ [And Thy servant is in the midst of Thy people which Thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.116/) ## 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:1KI:106 # text = וְעַ֨בְדְּךָ֔ בְּת֥וֹךְ עַמְּךָ֖ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בָּחָ֑רְתָּ עַם־רָ֕ב אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא־יִמָּנֶ֛ה וְלֹ֥א יִסָּפֵ֖ר מֵרֹֽב׃ # verse = 1KI.3.8 1-3 וְעַ֨בְדְּךָ֔ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 5 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=1KI_3:8!1|MId=o110030080011|Strong=2050b 2 עַ֨בְדּ עֶבֶד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Gloss=servant|Ref=1KI_3:8!1|MId=o110030080012|Strong=5650 3 ְךָ֔ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=1KI_3:8!1|MId=o110030080013|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 4-5 בְּת֥וֹךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=[is]|Ref=1KI_3:8!2|MId=o110030080021|Strong=0871a 5 ת֥וֹךְ תָּוֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=among|Ref=1KI_3:8!2|MId=o110030080022|Strong=8432 6-7 עַמְּךָ֖ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 עַמּ עַם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=people|Ref=1KI_3:8!3|MId=o110030080031|Strong=5971 7 ְךָ֖ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=1KI_3:8!3|MId=o110030080032|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 8 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 9 mark _ Gloss=which|Ref=1KI_3:8!4|MId=o110030080041|Strong=0834|Type=relative 9 בָּחָ֑רְתָּ בָּחַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 6 acl:relcl _ Gloss=you.have.chosen|Ref=1KI_3:8!5|MId=o110030080051|Strong=0977|Frame=A0:110030070021;A1:110030080031;|Type=qatal 10 עַם־ עַם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Gloss=a.people|Ref=1KI_3:8!6|MId=o110030080061|Strong=5971|SpaceAfter=No 11 רָ֕ב רַב ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 amod _ Gloss=numerous|Ref=1KI_3:8!7|MId=o110030080071|Strong=7227|Type=adjective 12 אֲשֶׁ֧ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 14 mark _ Gloss=which|Ref=1KI_3:8!8|MId=o110030080081|Strong=0834|Type=relative 13 לֹֽא־ לֹא ADV _ _ 14 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=1KI_3:8!9|MId=o110030080091|Strong=3808|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 14 יִמָּנֶ֛ה מָנָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 10 acl:relcl _ Gloss=it.will.be.numbered|Ref=1KI_3:8!10|MId=o110030080101|Strong=4487|Frame=A1:110030080061;|Type=yiqtol 15-16 וְלֹ֥א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 17 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=1KI_3:8!11|MId=o110030080111|Strong=2050b 16 לֹ֥א לֹא ADV _ _ 17 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=1KI_3:8!11|MId=o110030080112|Strong=3808|Type=negative 17 יִסָּפֵ֖ר סָפַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 14 conj _ Gloss=it.will.be.counted|Ref=1KI_3:8!12|MId=o110030080121|Strong=5608|Frame=A1:110030080061;|Type=yiqtol 18-19 מֵרֹֽב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 מֵ מִן ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=1KI_3:8!13|MId=o110030080131|Strong=4480 19 רֹֽב רֹב NOUN _ Number=Sing 17 obl _ Gloss=multitude|Ref=1KI_3:8!13|MId=o110030080132|Strong=7230 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=1KI_3:8!13 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | בָּחָרְתָּ *you have chosen* | qatal · qal | | עַמּ *people* | | | | **not** יִמָּנֶה *it will be numbered* | yiqtol · niphal | | עַם־ *a people* | | | | **not** יִסָּפֵר *it will be counted* | yiqtol · niphal | | עַם־ *a people* | | | 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} וְעַבְדָךְ בְּגוֹ עַמָךְ דְאִתְרְעִיתָא עַם סַגִי דְלָא יִתְחַשְׁבוּן וְלָא יִתְמְנוּן מִסְגֵי: 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. [And Thy servant is in the midst of Thy people which Thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.116/) **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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