--- title: 2 Kings 6:25 — And there was a great famine in Samaria; and, behold, they besieged… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And there was a great famine in Samaria; and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. Who acts: great famine, bands. 2 Kings 6:25 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.25/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI/6/) / 6:25 # 2 Kings 6:25 מְלָכִים ב **Who acts:** great famine, bands · **What happens:** be, besiege, sell · **To what, where:** famine, head This is 2 Kings 6:25 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 — great famine, bands — and what happens in the verse to famine, head, 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. וַיְהִ֨י רָעָ֤ב גָּדוֹל֙ בְּשֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹן וְהִנֵּ֖ה צָרִ֣ים עָלֶ֑יהָ עַ֣ד הֱי֤וֹת רֹאשׁ־חֲמוֹר֙ בִּשְׁמֹנִ֣ים כֶּ֔סֶף וְרֹ֛בַע הַקַּ֥ב דִּבְיוֹנִ֖יםבַּחֲמִשָּׁה־כָֽסֶף׃ [And there was a great famine in Samaria; and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.189/) ## 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:165 # text = וַיְהִ֨י רָעָ֤ב גָּדוֹל֙ בְּשֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹן וְהִנֵּ֖ה צָרִ֣ים עָלֶ֑יהָ עַ֣ד הֱי֤וֹת רֹאשׁ־חֲמוֹר֙ בִּשְׁמֹנִ֣ים כֶּ֔סֶף וְרֹ֛בַע הַקַּ֥ב דִּבְיוֹנִ֖יםבַּחֲמִשָּׁה־כָֽסֶף׃ # verse = 2KI.6.25 1-2 וַיְהִ֨י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2KI_6:25!1|MId=o120060250011|Strong=2050b 2 יְהִ֨י הָיָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=it.was|Ref=2KI_6:25!1|MId=o120060250012|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:120060250021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 רָעָ֤ב רָעָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Gloss=a.famine|Ref=2KI_6:25!2|MId=o120060250021|Strong=7458 4 גָּדוֹל֙ גָּדוֹל ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 amod _ Gloss=great|Ref=2KI_6:25!3|MId=o120060250031|Strong=1419|Type=adjective 5-6 בְּשֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=2KI_6:25!4|MId=o120060250041|Strong=0871a 6 שֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹן שֹׁמְרוֹן PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Samaria|Ref=2KI_6:25!4|MId=o120060250042|Strong=8111 7-8 וְהִנֵּ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2KI_6:25!5|MId=o120060250051|Strong=2050b 8 הִנֵּ֖ה הִנֵּה INTJ _ _ 9 discourse _ Gloss=there!|Ref=2KI_6:25!5|MId=o120060250052|Strong=2009|Type=demonstrative 9 צָרִ֣ים צוּר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 2 conj _ Gloss=[they.were].laying.siege|Ref=2KI_6:25!6|MId=o120060250061|Strong=6696|Frame=A0:120060240051;120060240101;|Type=participle_active 10-11 עָלֶ֑יהָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 עָלֶ֑י עַל ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=2KI_6:25!7|MId=o120060250071|Strong=5921 11 הָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ Gloss=it|Ref=2KI_6:25!7|MId=o120060250072|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 12 עַ֣ד עַד ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=until|Ref=2KI_6:25!8|MId=o120060250081|Strong=5704 13 הֱי֤וֹת הָיָה AUX _ HebBinyan=QAL 18 cop _ Gloss=was|Ref=2KI_6:25!9|MId=o120060250091|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:120060250101;|Type=infinitive_construct 14 רֹאשׁ־ רֹאשׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Gloss=[the].head|Ref=2KI_6:25!10|MId=o120060250101|Strong=7218|SpaceAfter=No 15 חֲמוֹר֙ חֲמוֹר NOUN _ Number=Sing 14 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.a.donkey|Ref=2KI_6:25!11|MId=o120060250111|Strong=2543 16-17 בִּשְׁמֹנִ֣ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 בִּ בְּ ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=2KI_6:25!12|MId=o120060250121|Strong=0871a 17 שְׁמֹנִ֣ים שְׁמֹנֶה NUM _ Number=Plur 18 nummod _ Gloss=eighty|Ref=2KI_6:25!12|MId=o120060250122|Strong=8084|Type=cardinal_number 18 כֶּ֔סֶף כֶּסֶף NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 obl _ Gloss=silver|Ref=2KI_6:25!13|MId=o120060250131|Strong=3701 19-20 וְרֹ֛בַע _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 20 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2KI_6:25!14|MId=o120060250141|Strong=2050b 20 רֹ֛בַע רֹבַע NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 conj _ Gloss=the.fourth.part|Ref=2KI_6:25!14|MId=o120060250142|Strong=7255 21-22 הַקַּ֥ב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 22 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=2KI_6:25!15|MId=o120060250151|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 22 קַּ֥ב קַב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 20 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.kab|Ref=2KI_6:25!15|MId=o120060250152|Strong=6894 23-25 דִּבְיוֹנִ֖יםבַּחֲמִשָּׁה־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 23 דִּבְיוֹנִ֖ים דִּבְיוֹנִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 20 appos _ Gloss=doves'.dung(s)|Ref=2KI_6:25!18|MId=o120060250181|Strong=1686 24 בַּ בְּ ADP _ _ 26 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=2KI_6:25!19|MId=o120060250191|Strong=0871a 25 חֲמִשָּׁה־ חָמֵשׁ NUM _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 26 nummod _ Gloss=five|Ref=2KI_6:25!19|MId=o120060250192|Strong=2568|Type=cardinal_number 26 כָֽסֶף כֶּסֶף NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 20 obl _ Gloss=silver|Ref=2KI_6:25!20|MId=o120060250201|Strong=3701|SpaceAfter=No 27 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 26 punct _ Ref=2KI_6:25!20 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יְהִי *it was* | wayyiqtol · qal | רָעָב *a famine* | | | | | צָרִים *\[they were\] laying siege* | participle active · qal | | | | | | הֱיוֹת *was* | infinitive construct · qal | רֹאשׁ־ *\[the\] head* | | | | 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} וַהֲוָה כַפְנָא רַבָּא בְּשֹׁמְרוֹן וְהָא צָיְרִין עֲלָהּ עַד דַהֲוָה רֵישָׁא דַחֲמְרָא מִזְדַבֵּן בְּתַמְנָן כְּסַף וְרִבְעַת קַבָּא דְזֶבֶל מַפְקַת יוֹנַיָא בְּחַמְשָׁא סִלְעִין דִכְסַף: 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 there was a great famine in Samaria; and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.189/) **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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