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title: Ezekiel 6:4 — And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. Who acts: altars, I, your. Ezekiel 6:4 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 6:4 יְחֶזְקֵאל

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**Who acts:** altars, I, your · **What happens:** become, break, cast down, image · **To what, where:** sun images, slain men, idols

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This is Ezekiel 6:4 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 — altars, I, your — and what happens in the verse to sun images, slain men, idols, 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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וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ מִזְבְּח֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם וְנִשְׁבְּר֖וּ חַמָּֽנֵיכֶ֑ם וְהִפַּלְתִּי֙ חַלְלֵיכֶ֔ם לִפְנֵ֖י גִּלּוּלֵיכֶֽם׃

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[And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.109/)

## 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:102
# text = וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ מִזְבְּח֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם וְנִשְׁבְּר֖וּ חַמָּֽנֵיכֶ֑ם וְהִפַּלְתִּי֙ חַלְלֵיכֶ֔ם לִפְנֵ֖י גִּלּוּלֵיכֶֽם׃
# verse = EZK.6.4
1-2	וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EZK_6:4!1|MId=o260060040011|Strong=2050b
2	נָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙	שָׁמֵם	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=they.will.be.made.desolate|Ref=EZK_6:4!1|MId=o260060040012|Strong=8074|Frame=A1:260060040021;|Type=weqatal
3-4	מִזְבְּח֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	מִזְבְּח֣וֹתֵי	מִזְבֵּחַ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=altars|Ref=EZK_6:4!2|MId=o260060040021|Strong=4196
4	כֶ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=your|Ref=EZK_6:4!2|MId=o260060040022|Strong=3641b|Type=pronominal
5-6	וְנִשְׁבְּר֖וּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
5	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	6	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EZK_6:4!3|MId=o260060040031|Strong=2050b
6	נִשְׁבְּר֖וּ	שָׁבַר	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=they.will.be.shattered|Ref=EZK_6:4!3|MId=o260060040032|Strong=7665|Frame=A1:260060040041;|Type=weqatal
7-8	חַמָּֽנֵיכֶ֑ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
7	חַמָּֽנֵי	חַמָּן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	Gloss=altars|Ref=EZK_6:4!4|MId=o260060040041|Strong=2553
8	כֶ֑ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=your.incense|Ref=EZK_6:4!4|MId=o260060040042|Strong=3641b|Type=pronominal
9-10	וְהִפַּלְתִּי֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	10	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=EZK_6:4!5|MId=o260060040051|Strong=2050b
10	הִפַּלְתִּי֙	נָפַל	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=1	2	conj	_	Gloss=I.will.make.fall|Ref=EZK_6:4!5|MId=o260060040052|Strong=5307|Frame=AA:260060030101;A0:260060040061;|Type=weqatal
11-12	חַלְלֵיכֶ֔ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	חַלְלֵי	חָלָל	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	10	obj	_	Gloss=your.slain|Ref=EZK_6:4!6|MId=o260060040061|Strong=2491|Type=adjective
12	כֶ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=[ones]|Ref=EZK_6:4!6|MId=o260060040062|Strong=3641b|Type=pronominal
13-14	לִפְנֵ֖י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	_	14	case	_	Gloss=before|Ref=EZK_6:4!7|MId=o260060040071|Strong=3807a
14	פְנֵ֖י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	_	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	Gloss=|Ref=EZK_6:4!7|MId=o260060040072|Strong=6440
15-16	גִּלּוּלֵיכֶֽם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
15	גִּלּוּלֵי	גִּלּוּלִים	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	14	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=idols|Ref=EZK_6:4!8|MId=o260060040081|Strong=1544
16	כֶֽם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=your|Ref=EZK_6:4!8|MId=o260060040082|Strong=3641b|Type=pronominal
17	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	16	punct	_	Ref=EZK_6:4!8
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| נָשַׁמּוּ *they will be made desolate* | weqatal · niphal |  | מִזְבְּחוֹתֵי *altars* |  |  |
| נִשְׁבְּרוּ *they will be shattered* | weqatal · niphal |  | חַמָּֽנֵי *altars* |  |  |
| הִפַּלְתִּי *I will make fall* | weqatal · hiphil | חַלְלֵי *your slain* |  |  |  |

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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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וְיִצְדוּן אֱגוֹרֵיכוֹן וְיִתְבְּרוּן חֲנִיסְנְסֵיכוֹן וְאַרְמִי קְטִילֵיכוֹן קֳדָם פִּגוּר טַעֲוַתְכוֹן:

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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. [And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.109/)

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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:102`.

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