--- title: 2 Kings 25:21 — And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land. Who acts: king. 2 Kings 25:21 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.25.21/) [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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/25/) / 25:21 # 2 Kings 25:21 מְלָכִים ב **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** smite, put, carry away · **To what, where:** officer, Riblah, Judah, land This is 2 Kings 25:21 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 — king — and what happens in the verse to officer, Riblah, Judah, land, 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. וַיַּ֣ךְ אֹתָם֩ מֶ֨לֶךְ בָּבֶ֧ל וַיְמִיתֵ֛ם בְּרִבְלָ֖ה בְּאֶ֣רֶץ חֲמָ֑ת וַיִּ֥גֶל יְהוּדָ֖ה מֵעַ֥ל אַדְמָתֽוֹ׃ [And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.777/) [So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.778/) ## 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:709 # text = וַיַּ֣ךְ אֹתָם֩ מֶ֨לֶךְ בָּבֶ֧ל וַיְמִיתֵ֛ם בְּרִבְלָ֖ה בְּאֶ֣רֶץ חֲמָ֑ת וַיִּ֥גֶל יְהוּדָ֖ה מֵעַ֥ל אַדְמָתֽוֹ׃ # verse = 2KI.25.21 1-2 וַיַּ֣ךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2KI_25:21!1|MId=o120250210011|Strong=2050b 2 יַּ֣ךְ נָכָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.struck.down|Ref=2KI_25:21!1|MId=o120250210012|Strong=5221|Frame=A0:120250210022;AA:120250210031;|Type=wayyiqtol 3-4 אֹתָם֩ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 אֹת אֵת ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=|Ref=2KI_25:21!2|MId=o120250210021|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker 4 ָם֩ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ Gloss=them|Ref=2KI_25:21!2|MId=o120250210022|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 5 מֶ֨לֶךְ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Gloss=the.king|Ref=2KI_25:21!3|MId=o120250210031|Strong=4428 6 בָּבֶ֧ל בָּבֶל PROPN _ _ 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Babylon|Ref=2KI_25:21!4|MId=o120250210041|Strong=0894 7-9 וַיְמִיתֵ֛ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 8 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2KI_25:21!5|MId=o120250210051|Strong=2050b 8 יְמִית מוּת VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he|Ref=2KI_25:21!5|MId=o120250210052|Strong=4191|Frame=AA:120250210031;A0:120250210053;|Type=wayyiqtol 9 ֵ֛ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ Gloss=put.them.to.death|Ref=2KI_25:21!5|MId=o120250210053|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 10-11 בְּרִבְלָ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=at|Ref=2KI_25:21!6|MId=o120250210061|Strong=0871a 11 רִבְלָ֖ה רִבְלָה PROPN _ _ 8 obl _ Gloss=Riblah|Ref=2KI_25:21!6|MId=o120250210062|Strong=7247 12-13 בְּאֶ֣רֶץ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=2KI_25:21!7|MId=o120250210071|Strong=0871a 13 אֶ֣רֶץ אֶרֶץ NOUN _ Number=Sing 8 obl _ Gloss=the.land|Ref=2KI_25:21!7|MId=o120250210072|Strong=0776 14 חֲמָ֑ת חֲמָת PROPN _ _ 13 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Hamath|Ref=2KI_25:21!8|MId=o120250210081|Strong=2574 15-16 וַיִּ֥גֶל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2KI_25:21!9|MId=o120250210091|Strong=2050b 16 יִּ֥גֶל גָּלָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=it.went.into.exile|Ref=2KI_25:21!9|MId=o120250210092|Strong=1540|Frame=A0:120250210101;|Type=wayyiqtol 17 יְהוּדָ֖ה יְהוּדָה PROPN _ _ 16 nsubj _ Gloss=Judah|Ref=2KI_25:21!10|MId=o120250210101|Strong=3063 18-19 מֵעַ֥ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 מֵ מִן ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=2KI_25:21!11|MId=o120250210111|Strong=4480 19 עַ֥ל עַל ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=2KI_25:21!11|MId=o120250210112|Strong=5921 20-21 אַדְמָתֽוֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 אַדְמָת אֲדָמָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 16 obl _ Gloss=land|Ref=2KI_25:21!12|MId=o120250210121|Strong=0127 21 ֽוֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ Gloss=its|Ref=2KI_25:21!12|MId=o120250210122|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=2KI_25:21!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יַּךְ *he struck down* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | ָם *them* | | | מֶלֶךְ *the king* | | יְמִית *he* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | ֵם *put them to death* | | | מֶלֶךְ *the king* | | יִּגֶל *it went into exile* | wayyiqtol · qal | יְהוּדָה *Judah* | | | | 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} וּמְחָא יַתְהוֹן מַלְכָּא דְבָבֶל וְקַטְלִינוּן בְּרִבְלָא בְּאַרְעָא דַחֲמָת וּגְלוֹ דְבֵית יְהוּדָה מֵעַל אַרְעֲהוֹן: 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 the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.777/) 2. [So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.778/) **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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