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title: 1 Kings 8:11 — so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the clo… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD. Who acts: priests, glory, LORD. 1 Kings 8:11 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# 1 Kings 8:11 מְלָכִים א

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**Who acts:** priests, glory, LORD · **What happens:** not stand, minister, fill, glory · **To what, where:** house

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This is 1 Kings 8:11 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 — priests, glory, LORD — and what happens in the verse to house, 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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וְלֹֽא־יָכְל֧וּ הַכֹּהֲנִ֛ים לַעֲמֹ֥ד לְשָׁרֵ֖ת מִפְּנֵ֥י הֶֽעָנָ֑ן כִּי־מָלֵ֥א כְבוֹד־יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־בֵּ֥ית יְהוָֽה׃פ

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[so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.293/)

## 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:278
# text = וְלֹֽא־יָכְל֧וּ הַכֹּהֲנִ֛ים לַעֲמֹ֥ד לְשָׁרֵ֖ת מִפְּנֵ֥י הֶֽעָנָ֑ן כִּי־מָלֵ֥א כְבוֹד־יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־בֵּ֥ית יְהוָֽה׃פ
# verse = 1KI.8.11
1-2	וְלֹֽא־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	3	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=1KI_8:11!1|MId=o110080110011|Strong=2050b
2	לֹֽא־	לֹא	ADV	_	_	3	advmod	_	Gloss=not|Ref=1KI_8:11!1|MId=o110080110012|Strong=3808|Type=negative
3	יָכְל֧וּ	יָכֹל	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=they.were.able|Ref=1KI_8:11!2|MId=o110080110021|Strong=3201|Frame=A0:110080110032;|Type=qatal
4-5	הַכֹּהֲנִ֛ים	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	5	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=1KI_8:11!3|MId=o110080110031|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
5	כֹּהֲנִ֛ים	כֹּהֵן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	Gloss=priests|Ref=1KI_8:11!3|MId=o110080110032|Strong=3548
6-7	לַעֲמֹ֥ד	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=1KI_8:11!4|MId=o110080110041|Strong=3807a
7	עֲמֹ֥ד	עָמַד	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	3	xcomp	_	Gloss=stand|Ref=1KI_8:11!4|MId=o110080110042|Strong=5975|Frame=A0:110080110032;|Type=infinitive_construct
8-9	לְשָׁרֵ֖ת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=1KI_8:11!5|MId=o110080110051|Strong=3807a
9	שָׁרֵ֖ת	שָׁרַת	VERB	_	HebBinyan=PIEL	7	advcl	_	Gloss=serve|Ref=1KI_8:11!5|MId=o110080110052|Strong=8334|Frame=A0:110080110032;|Type=infinitive_construct
10-11	מִפְּנֵ֥י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	_	11	case	_	Gloss=because|Ref=1KI_8:11!6|MId=o110080110061|Strong=4480
11	פְּנֵ֥י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	_	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Gloss=of|Ref=1KI_8:11!6|MId=o110080110062|Strong=6440
12-13	הֶֽעָנָ֑ן	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	הֶֽ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	13	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=1KI_8:11!7|MId=o110080110071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
13	עָנָ֑ן	עָנָן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	11	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=cloud|Ref=1KI_8:11!7|MId=o110080110072|Strong=6051
14	כִּי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	15	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=1KI_8:11!8|MId=o110080110081|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No
15	מָלֵ֥א	מָלֵא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	advcl	_	Gloss=it.filled|Ref=1KI_8:11!9|MId=o110080110091|Strong=4390|Frame=A0:110080110101;A1:110080110131;|Type=qatal
16	כְבוֹד־	כָּבוֹד	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Gloss=the.glory|Ref=1KI_8:11!10|MId=o110080110101|Strong=3519|SpaceAfter=No
17	יְהוָ֖ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	16	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=1KI_8:11!11|MId=o110080110111|Strong=3068
18	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	19	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=1KI_8:11!12|MId=o110080110121|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
19	בֵּ֥ית	בַּיִת	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	15	obj	_	Gloss=the.house|Ref=1KI_8:11!13|MId=o110080110131|Strong=1004
20	יְהוָֽה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	19	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=1KI_8:11!14|MId=o110080110141|Strong=3068|SpaceAfter=No
21	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	20	punct	_	Ref=1KI_8:11!14|SpaceAfter=No
22	פ	פ	PUNCT	_	_	20	punct	_	Ref=1KI_8:11!14
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: yes

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **not** יָכְלוּ *they were able* | qatal · qal | כֹּהֲנִים *priests* |  |  |  |
| עֲמֹד *stand* | infinitive construct · qal | כֹּהֲנִים *priests* |  |  |  |
| שָׁרֵת *serve* | infinitive construct · piel | כֹּהֲנִים *priests* |  |  |  |
| מָלֵא *it filled* | qatal · qal | כְבוֹד־ *the glory* | בֵּית *the house* |  |  |

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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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וְלָא יָכִילוּ כַּהֲנַיָא לְמֵיקַם לְשַׁמָשָׁא מִן קֳדָם עֲנָנָא אֲרֵי אִתְמְלֵי יְקָרָא דַייָ יַת בֵּית מַקְדְשָׁא דַיָי:

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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. [so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.293/)

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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:278`.

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