--- title: 1 Samuel 2:9 — He will keep the feet of His holy ones, but the wicked shall be put… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: He will keep the feet of His holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for not by strength shall man prevail. Who acts: LORD, man. 1 Samuel 2:9 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/1SA.2.9/) [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 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/) / [chapter 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/2/) / 2:9 # 1 Samuel 2:9 שְׁמוּאֵל א **Who acts:** LORD, man · **What happens:** keep, put, prevail · **To what, where:** feet, wicked, darkness This is 1 Samuel 2:9 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 — LORD, man — and what happens in the verse to feet, wicked, darkness, 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 31 chapters of 1 Samuel on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. רַגְלֵ֤י חֲסִידָיו֙ יִשְׁמֹ֔ר וּרְשָׁעִ֖ים בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְ יִדָּ֑מּוּ כִּֽי־לֹ֥א בְכֹ֖חַ יִגְבַּר־אִֽישׁ׃ [He will keep the feet of His holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for not by strength shall man prevail.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.37/) ## 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:1SA:36 # text = רַגְלֵ֤י חֲסִידָיו֙ יִשְׁמֹ֔ר וּרְשָׁעִ֖ים בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְ יִדָּ֑מּוּ כִּֽי־לֹ֥א בְכֹ֖חַ יִגְבַּר־אִֽישׁ׃ # verse = 1SA.2.9 1 רַגְלֵ֤י רֶגֶל NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Dual 4 obj _ Gloss=the.feet|Ref=1SA_2:9!1|MId=o090020090011|Strong=7272 2-3 חֲסִידָיו֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 חֲסִידָי חָסִיד ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 1 compound:smixut _ Gloss=his.faithful|Ref=1SA_2:9!3|MId=o090020090031|Strong=2623|Type=adjective 3 ו֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ Gloss=[people]|Ref=1SA_2:9!3|MId=o090020090032|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 4 יִשְׁמֹ֔ר שָׁמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.protects|Ref=1SA_2:9!4|MId=o090020090041|Strong=8104|Frame=A0:090020080142;A1:090020090011;|Type=yiqtol 5-6 וּרְשָׁעִ֖ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=1SA_2:9!5|MId=o090020090051|Strong=2050b 6 רְשָׁעִ֖ים רָשָׁע ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ Gloss=wicked.[people]|Ref=1SA_2:9!5|MId=o090020090052|Strong=7563|Type=adjective 7-9 בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 בַּ בְּ ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=1SA_2:9!6|MId=o090020090061|Strong=0871a 8 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 9 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=1SA_2:9!6|MId=o090020090061ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 9 חֹ֣שֶׁךְ חֹשֶׁךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 obl _ Gloss=darkness|Ref=1SA_2:9!6|MId=o090020090062|Strong=2822 10 יִדָּ֑מּוּ דָּמַם VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 4 conj _ Gloss=they.perish|Ref=1SA_2:9!7|MId=o090020090071|Strong=1826|Frame=A0:090020090052;|Type=yiqtol 11 כִּֽי־ כִּי SCONJ _ _ 15 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=1SA_2:9!8|MId=o090020090081|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No 12 לֹ֥א לֹא ADV _ _ 15 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=1SA_2:9!9|MId=o090020090091|Strong=3808|Type=negative 13-14 בְכֹ֖חַ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 בְ בְּ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=by|Ref=1SA_2:9!10|MId=o090020090101|Strong=0871a 14 כֹ֖חַ כֹּחַ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 obl _ Gloss=strength|Ref=1SA_2:9!10|MId=o090020090102|Strong=3581 15 יִגְבַּר־ גָּבַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 4 advcl _ Gloss=he.prevails|Ref=1SA_2:9!11|MId=o090020090111|Strong=1396|Frame=A0:090020090121;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No 16 אִֽישׁ אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Gloss=anyone|Ref=1SA_2:9!12|MId=o090020090121|Strong=0376|SpaceAfter=No 17 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 16 punct _ Ref=1SA_2:9!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִשְׁמֹר *he protects* | yiqtol · qal | | רַגְלֵי *the feet* | | | | יִדָּמּוּ *they perish* | yiqtol · niphal | רְשָׁעִים *wicked \[people\]* | | | | | **not** יִגְבַּר־ *he prevails* | yiqtol · qal | אִֽישׁ *anyone* | | | | 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} וּגְוִיַת עַבְדוֹהִי צַדִיקַיָא יִטַר מִגֵהִנָם וְרַשִׁיעַיָא בְגֵהִנָם בַּחֲשׁוֹכָא יִתְדְנוּן לְהוֹדָעָא אֲרֵי לָא מַן דְאִית בֵּיהּ חֵילָא זַכֵּי לְיוֹם דִינָא: 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 keep the feet of His holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for not by strength shall man prevail.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.37/) **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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