--- title: Ezekiel 23:3 — and they committed harlotries in Egypt; they committed harlotries in… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: and they committed harlotries in Egypt; they committed harlotries in their youth; there were their bosoms pressed, and there their virgin breasts were bruised. Who acts: women, bosoms. Ezekiel 23:3 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/EZK.23.3/) [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/) / [Ezekiel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK/) / [chapter 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK/23/) / 23:3 # Ezekiel 23:3 יְחֶזְקֵאל **Who acts:** women, bosoms · **What happens:** commit, be, press, bruise, bosom · **To what, where:** harlotries, Egypt, youth, bosoms, virgin breasts This is Ezekiel 23:3 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 — women, bosoms — and what happens in the verse to harlotries, Egypt, youth, bosoms, virgin breasts, 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 48 chapters of Ezekiel on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וַתִּזְנֶ֣ינָה בְמִצְרַ֔יִם בִּנְעוּרֵיהֶ֖ן זָנ֑וּ שָׁ֚מָּה מֹעֲכ֣וּ שְׁדֵיהֶ֔ן וְשָׁ֣ם עִשּׂ֔וּ דַּדֵּ֖י בְּתוּלֵיהֶֽן׃ [and they committed harlotries in Egypt; they committed harlotries in their youth; there were their bosoms pressed, and there their virgin breasts were bruised.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.573/) ## 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:EZK:545 # text = וַתִּזְנֶ֣ינָה בְמִצְרַ֔יִם בִּנְעוּרֵיהֶ֖ן זָנ֑וּ שָׁ֚מָּה מֹעֲכ֣וּ שְׁדֵיהֶ֔ן וְשָׁ֣ם עִשּׂ֔וּ דַּדֵּ֖י בְּתוּלֵיהֶֽן׃ # verse = EZK.23.3 1-2 וַתִּזְנֶ֣ינָה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EZK_23:3!1|MId=o260230030011|Strong=2050b 2 תִּזְנֶ֣ינָה זָנָה VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.acted.as.prostitutes|Ref=EZK_23:3!1|MId=o260230030012|Strong=2181|Frame=A0:260230020041;|Type=wayyiqtol 3-4 בְמִצְרַ֔יִם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 בְ בְּ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=EZK_23:3!2|MId=o260230030021|Strong=0871a 4 מִצְרַ֔יִם מִצְרַיִם PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Egypt|Ref=EZK_23:3!2|MId=o260230030022|Strong=4714 5-7 בִּנְעוּרֵיהֶ֖ן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 בִּ בְּ ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=EZK_23:3!3|MId=o260230030031|Strong=0871a 6 נְעוּרֵי נְעוּרִים NOUN _ Number=Plur 8 obl _ Gloss=youth(s)|Ref=EZK_23:3!3|MId=o260230030032|Strong=5271 7 הֶ֖ן הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ Gloss=their|Ref=EZK_23:3!3|MId=o260230030033|Strong=2004|Type=pronominal 8 זָנ֑וּ זָנָה VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 parataxis _ Gloss=they.acted.as.prostitutes|Ref=EZK_23:3!4|MId=o260230030041|Strong=2181|Frame=A0:260230020041;|Type=qatal 9-10 שָׁ֚מָּה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 שָׁ֚מּ שָׁם ADV _ _ 11 advmod _ Gloss=there|Ref=EZK_23:3!5|MId=o260230030051|Strong=8033 10 ָה ה X _ _ 9 nmod _ Gloss=(to)|Ref=EZK_23:3!5|MId=o260230030052|Strong=1886c|Type=directional_he 11 מֹעֲכ֣וּ מָעַךְ VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=PUAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 parataxis _ Gloss=they.were.touched|Ref=EZK_23:3!6|MId=o260230030061|Strong=4600|Frame=A1:260230030071;|Type=qatal 12-13 שְׁדֵיהֶ֔ן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 שְׁדֵי שַׁד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Dual 11 nsubj _ Gloss=breasts|Ref=EZK_23:3!7|MId=o260230030071|Strong=7699 13 הֶ֔ן הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ Gloss=their|Ref=EZK_23:3!7|MId=o260230030072|Strong=2004|Type=pronominal 14-15 וְשָׁ֣ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EZK_23:3!8|MId=o260230030081|Strong=2050b 15 שָׁ֣ם שָׁם ADV _ _ 16 advmod _ Gloss=there|Ref=EZK_23:3!8|MId=o260230030082|Strong=8033 16 עִשּׂ֔וּ עָשָׂה VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=people.squeezed|Ref=EZK_23:3!9|MId=o260230030091|Strong=6213a|Frame=A0:;A1:260230030101;|Type=qatal 17 דַּדֵּ֖י דַּד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Dual 16 obj _ Gloss=the.nipples|Ref=EZK_23:3!10|MId=o260230030101|Strong=1717 18-19 בְּתוּלֵיהֶֽן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 בְּתוּלֵי בְּתוּלִים NOUN _ Number=Plur 17 compound:smixut _ Gloss=their.virginiti(es)|Ref=EZK_23:3!11|MId=o260230030111|Strong=1331 19 הֶֽן הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ Gloss=their|Ref=EZK_23:3!11|MId=o260230030112|Strong=2004|Type=pronominal 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=EZK_23:3!11 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | תִּזְנֶינָה *they acted as prostitutes* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | זָנוּ *they acted as prostitutes* | qatal · qal | | | | | | מֹעֲכוּ *they were touched* | qatal · pual | | שְׁדֵי *breasts* | | | | עִשּׂוּ *people squeezed* | qatal · piel | | דַּדֵּי *the nipples* | | | 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} וְטַעֲאָה בְמִצְרַיִם בָּתַר פּוּלְחַן טַעֲוָתְהוֹן טִעֲאָה תַּמָן פַּלְחָא לְטַעֲוָתָא וְתַמָן קִלְקְלָא עוֹבְדֵיהֶן: 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 they committed harlotries in Egypt; they committed harlotries in their youth; there were their bosoms pressed, and there their virgin breasts were bruised.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.573/) **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). Hebrew sentence `wlc:EZK:545`. - ← previous: [Ezekiel 23:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.2/) - next →: [Ezekiel 23:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.4/) - ↑ back to [Ezekiel 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK/23/)