--- title: 2 Samuel 22:29 — For Thou art my lamp, O LORD; and the LORD doth lighten my darkness. · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: For Thou art my lamp, O LORD; and the LORD doth lighten my darkness. Who acts: Thou, LORD. 2 Samuel 22:29 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/2SA.22.29/) [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 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/) / [chapter 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA/22/) / 22:29 # 2 Samuel 22:29 שְׁמוּאֵל ב **Who acts:** Thou, LORD · **What happens:** be, lighten · **To what, where:** lamp, darkness This is 2 Samuel 22:29 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 — Thou, LORD — and what happens in the verse to lamp, 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 24 chapters of 2 Samuel on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. כִּֽי־אַתָּ֥ה נֵירִ֖י יְהוָ֑ה וַיהוָ֖ה יַגִּ֥יהַּ חָשְׁכִּֽי׃ [For Thou art my lamp, O LORD; and the LORD doth lighten my darkness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.688/) ## 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:2SA:608 # text = כִּֽי־אַתָּ֥ה נֵירִ֖י יְהוָ֑ה וַיהוָ֖ה יַגִּ֥יהַּ חָשְׁכִּֽי׃ # verse = 2SA.22.29 1 כִּֽי־ כִּי SCONJ _ _ 3 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=2SA_22:29!1|MId=o100220290011|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No 2 אַתָּ֥ה אַתָּה PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ Gloss=you|Ref=2SA_22:29!2|MId=o100220290021|Strong=0859|Type=personal 3-4 נֵירִ֖י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 נֵיר נֵר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=lamp|Ref=2SA_22:29!3|MId=o100220290031|Strong=5216 4 ִ֖י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ Gloss=[are].my|Ref=2SA_22:29!3|MId=o100220290032|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 5 יְהוָ֑ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 3 parataxis _ Gloss=O.Yahweh|Ref=2SA_22:29!4|MId=o100220290041|Strong=3068 6-7 וַיהוָ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 8 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=2SA_22:29!5|MId=o100220290051|Strong=2050b 7 יהוָ֖ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 8 nsubj _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=2SA_22:29!5|MId=o100220290052|Strong=3068 8 יַגִּ֥יהַּ נָגַהּ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 3 conj _ Gloss=he.illuminates|Ref=2SA_22:29!6|MId=o100220290061|Strong=5050|Frame=AA:100220290052;A0:100220290071;|Type=yiqtol 9-10 חָשְׁכִּֽי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 חָשְׁכּ חֹשֶׁךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 obj _ Gloss=darkness|Ref=2SA_22:29!7|MId=o100220290071|Strong=2822 10 ִֽי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=2SA_22:29!7|MId=o100220290072|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 11 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 10 punct _ Ref=2SA_22:29!7 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יַגִּיהַּ *he illuminates* | yiqtol · hiphil | חָשְׁכּ *darkness* | | | יהוָה *Yahweh* | 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} אֲרֵי אַתְּ הוּא מָרֵי נְהוֹרֵי דְיִשְׂרָאֵל יְיָ וַיָי יַפְקִינַנִי מֵחֲשׁוֹכָא לִנְהוֹרָא וְיֶחֱזִינַנִי בְּעַלְמָא דַעֲתִיד לְמֵיתֵי לְצַדִיקַיָא: 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. [For Thou art my lamp, O LORD; and the LORD doth lighten my darkness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.688/) **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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