--- title: 2 Kings 21:1 — Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzi-bah. Who acts: Manasseh, name, mother. 2 Kings 21:1 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/2KI.21.1/) [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/) / [2 Kings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/) / [chapter 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/21/) / 21:1 # 2 Kings 21:1 מְלָכִים ב **Who acts:** Manasseh, name, mother · **What happens:** be, begin, reign, name · **To what, where:** Jerusalem, Hephzi bah This is 2 Kings 21:1 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 — Manasseh, name, mother — and what happens in the verse to Jerusalem, Hephzi bah, 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 25 chapters of 2 Kings on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. בֶּן־שְׁתֵּ֨ים עֶשְׂרֵ֤ה שָׁנָה֙ מְנַשֶּׁ֣ה בְמָלְכ֔וֹ וַחֲמִשִּׁ֤ים וְחָמֵשׁ֙ שָׁנָ֔ה מָלַ֖ךְ בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְשֵׁ֥ם אִמּ֖וֹ חֶפְצִי־בָֽהּחֶפְצִי־בָֽהּ׃ [Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.652/) ## 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:2KI:586 # text = בֶּן־שְׁתֵּ֨ים עֶשְׂרֵ֤ה שָׁנָה֙ מְנַשֶּׁ֣ה בְמָלְכ֔וֹ וַחֲמִשִּׁ֤ים וְחָמֵשׁ֙ שָׁנָ֔ה מָלַ֖ךְ בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְשֵׁ֥ם אִמּ֖וֹ חֶפְצִי־בָֽהּחֶפְצִי־בָֽהּ׃ # verse = 2KI.21.1 1 בֶּן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=[was].a.son|Ref=2KI_21:1!1|MId=o120210010011|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 2 שְׁתֵּ֨ים שְׁנַיִם NUM _ Gender=Fem|Number=Dual 4 nummod _ Gloss=of.two.plus|Ref=2KI_21:1!2|MId=o120210010021|Strong=8147|Type=cardinal_number 3 עֶשְׂרֵ֤ה עֶשְׂרֵה NUM _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 flat _ Gloss=ten|Ref=2KI_21:1!3|MId=o120210010031|Strong=6240|Type=cardinal_number 4 שָׁנָה֙ שָׁנָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 1 compound:smixut _ Gloss=year[s]|Ref=2KI_21:1!4|MId=o120210010041|Strong=8141 5 מְנַשֶּׁ֣ה מְנַשֶּׁה PROPN _ _ 1 nsubj _ Gloss=Manasseh|Ref=2KI_21:1!5|MId=o120210010051|Strong=4519 6-8 בְמָלְכ֔וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 בְ בְּ ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=when|Ref=2KI_21:1!6|MId=o120210010061|Strong=0871a 7 מָלְכ מָלַךְ VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 1 advcl _ Gloss=he|Ref=2KI_21:1!6|MId=o120210010062|Strong=4427|Frame=A0:120210010063;|Type=infinitive_construct 8 ֔וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ Gloss=became.king|Ref=2KI_21:1!6|MId=o120210010063|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 9-10 וַחֲמִשִּׁ֤ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2KI_21:1!7|MId=o120210010071|Strong=2050b 10 חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים חָמֵשׁ NUM _ Number=Plur 13 nummod _ Gloss=fifty|Ref=2KI_21:1!7|MId=o120210010072|Strong=2572|Type=cardinal_number 11-12 וְחָמֵשׁ֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 12 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2KI_21:1!8|MId=o120210010081|Strong=2050b 12 חָמֵשׁ֙ חָמֵשׁ NUM _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 10 conj _ Gloss=five|Ref=2KI_21:1!8|MId=o120210010082|Strong=2568|Type=cardinal_number 13 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 14 obl _ Gloss=year[s]|Ref=2KI_21:1!9|MId=o120210010091|Strong=8141 14 מָלַ֖ךְ מָלַךְ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 1 conj _ Gloss=he.reigned|Ref=2KI_21:1!10|MId=o120210010101|Strong=4427|Frame=A0:120210010051;|Type=qatal 15-16 בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 בִּ בְּ ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=2KI_21:1!11|MId=o120210010111|Strong=0871a 16 ירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם יְרוּשָׁלִַ͏ם PROPN _ _ 14 obl _ Gloss=Jerusalem|Ref=2KI_21:1!11|MId=o120210010112|Strong=3389 17-18 וְשֵׁ֥ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 18 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2KI_21:1!12|MId=o120210010121|Strong=2050b 18 שֵׁ֥ם שֵׁם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 conj _ Gloss=the.name|Ref=2KI_21:1!12|MId=o120210010122|Strong=8034 19-20 אִמּ֖וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 אִמּ אֵם NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 18 compound:smixut _ Gloss=his.mother|Ref=2KI_21:1!13|MId=o120210010131|Strong=0517 20 ֖וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=2KI_21:1!13|MId=o120210010132|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 21-22 חֶפְצִי־בָֽהּחֶפְצִי־בָֽהּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 חֶפְצִי־בָֽהּ חֶפְצִי־בָהּ PROPN _ _ 18 dep _ Gloss=[was]|Ref=2KI_21:1!14|MId=o120210010141 22 חֶפְצִי־בָֽהּ חֶפְצִיבָהּ PROPN _ _ 18 dep _ Gloss=Hephzibah|Ref=2KI_21:1!15|MId=o120210010151 23 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 22 punct _ Ref=2KI_21:1!15 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | מָלְכ *he* | infinitive construct · qal | וֹ *became king* | | | | | מָלַךְ *he reigned* | qatal · qal | מְנַשֶּׁה *Manasseh* | | | | 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} בַּר תַּרְתָּא עַסְרֵי שְׁנִין מְנַשֶׁה כַּד מְלַךְ וְחַמְשִׁין וַחֲמֵשׁ שְׁנִין מְלַךְ בִּירוּשְׁלֵם וְשׁוּם אִמֵיהּ חֶפְצִי בָהּ: 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. [Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.652/) **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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