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title: Ezekiel 23:45 — But righteous men, they shall judge them as adulteresses are judged,… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: But righteous men, they shall judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as women that shed blood are judged; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. Who acts: incense, women, blood. Ezekiel 23:45 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of
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# Ezekiel 23:45 יְחֶזְקֵאל

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**Who acts:** incense, women, blood · **What happens:** judge, shed, be · **To what, where:** harlotries, adulteresses, blood, women, hands

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This is Ezekiel 23:45 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 — incense, women, blood — and what happens in the verse to harlotries, adulteresses, blood, women, hands, 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.

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וַאֲנָשִׁ֣ים צַדִּיקִ֗ם הֵ֚מָּה יִשְׁפְּט֣וּ אֽוֹתְהֶ֔ם מִשְׁפַּט֙ נֹֽאֲפ֔וֹת וּמִשְׁפַּ֖ט שֹׁפְכ֣וֹת דָּ֑ם כִּ֤י נֹֽאֲפֹת֙ הֵ֔נָּה וְדָ֖ם בִּֽידֵיהֶֽן׃ס

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[But righteous men, they shall judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as women that shed blood are judged; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.616/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:587
# text = וַאֲנָשִׁ֣ים צַדִּיקִ֗ם הֵ֚מָּה יִשְׁפְּט֣וּ אֽוֹתְהֶ֔ם מִשְׁפַּט֙ נֹֽאֲפ֔וֹת וּמִשְׁפַּ֖ט שֹׁפְכ֣וֹת דָּ֑ם כִּ֤י נֹֽאֲפֹת֙ הֵ֔נָּה וְדָ֖ם בִּֽידֵיהֶֽן׃ס
# verse = EZK.23.45
1-2	וַאֲנָשִׁ֣ים	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	5	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EZK_23:45!1|MId=o260230450011|Strong=2050b
2	אֲנָשִׁ֣ים	אִישׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	5	dislocated	_	Gloss=people|Ref=EZK_23:45!1|MId=o260230450012|Strong=0376
3	צַדִּיקִ֗ם	צַדִּיק	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	2	amod	_	Gloss=righteous|Ref=EZK_23:45!2|MId=o260230450021|Strong=6662|Type=adjective
4	הֵ֚מָּה	הֵמָּה	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	Gloss=they|Ref=EZK_23:45!3|MId=o260230450031|Strong=1992|Type=personal
5	יִשְׁפְּט֣וּ	שָׁפַט	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=they.will.judge|Ref=EZK_23:45!4|MId=o260230450041|Strong=8199|Frame=A0:260230450031;A2:260230450052;A1:260230450061;260230450082;|Type=yiqtol
6-7	אֽוֹתְהֶ֔ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	אֽוֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	Gloss=|Ref=EZK_23:45!5|MId=o260230450051|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker
7	ְהֶ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	Gloss=them|Ref=EZK_23:45!5|MId=o260230450052|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
8	מִשְׁפַּט֙	מִשְׁפָּט	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	Gloss=judgment|Ref=EZK_23:45!6|MId=o260230450061|Strong=4941
9	נֹֽאֲפ֔וֹת	נָאַף	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur	8	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.adulteresses|Ref=EZK_23:45!7|MId=o260230450071|Strong=5003|Type=participle_active
10-11	וּמִשְׁפַּ֖ט	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	11	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EZK_23:45!8|MId=o260230450081|Strong=2050b
11	מִשְׁפַּ֖ט	מִשְׁפָּט	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Gloss=judgment|Ref=EZK_23:45!8|MId=o260230450082|Strong=4941
12	שֹׁפְכ֣וֹת	שָׁפַךְ	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur	11	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.[women.who].shed|Ref=EZK_23:45!9|MId=o260230450091|Strong=8210|Frame=A1:260230450101;|Type=participle_active
13	דָּ֑ם	דָּם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	12	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=(of).blood|Ref=EZK_23:45!10|MId=o260230450101|Strong=1818
14	כִּ֤י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	15	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=EZK_23:45!11|MId=o260230450111|Strong=3588
15	נֹֽאֲפֹת֙	נָאַף	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur	5	advcl	_	Gloss=[are].adulteresses|Ref=EZK_23:45!12|MId=o260230450121|Strong=5003|Frame=A0:260230440101;260230440121;|Type=participle_active
16	הֵ֔נָּה	הֵנָּה	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	Gloss=they|Ref=EZK_23:45!13|MId=o260230450131|Strong=2007|Type=personal
17-18	וְדָ֖ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	20	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EZK_23:45!14|MId=o260230450141|Strong=2050b
18	דָ֖ם	דָּם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Gloss=blood|Ref=EZK_23:45!14|MId=o260230450142|Strong=1818
19-21	בִּֽידֵיהֶֽן	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
19	בִּֽ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	20	case	_	Gloss=[is].on|Ref=EZK_23:45!15|MId=o260230450151|Strong=0871a
20	ידֵי	יָד	NOUN	_	Number=Dual	5	conj	_	Gloss=hands|Ref=EZK_23:45!15|MId=o260230450152|Strong=3027
21	הֶֽן	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=their|Ref=EZK_23:45!15|MId=o260230450153|Strong=2004|Type=pronominal
22	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	21	punct	_	Ref=EZK_23:45!15|SpaceAfter=No
23	ס	ס	PUNCT	_	_	21	punct	_	Ref=EZK_23:45!15
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יִשְׁפְּטוּ *they will judge* | yiqtol · qal | הֵמָּה *they* | מִשְׁפַּט *judgment* + מִשְׁפַּט *judgment* | ְהֶם *them* |  |
| שֹׁפְכוֹת *of \[women who\] shed* | participle active · qal |  | דָּם *(of) blood* |  |  |
| נֹֽאֲפֹת *\[are\] adulteresses* | participle active · qal |  |  |  |  |

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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}

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וְגַבְרִין זַכָּאִין בְּקִבְלֵיהוֹן יִתְפָּרְעוּן מִנְהֶן פּוּרְעֲנוּת נַיָפִין וּפוּרְעֲנוּת אַשְׁדַת דַם אֲרֵי זַנְאִין בְּהֶן וְדַם זַכַּאִי אֲשָׁדוּ בִּידֵיהוֹן:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [But righteous men, they shall judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as women that shed blood are judged; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.616/)

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**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:587`.

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