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title: Habakkuk 3:14 — Thou hast stricken through with his own rods the head of his rulers,… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: Thou hast stricken through with his own rods the head of his rulers, that come as a whirlwind to scatter me; whose rejoicing is as to devour the poor secretly. Who acts: Thou, head, rejoicing. Habakkuk 3:14 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Habakkuk 3:14 חֲבַקּוּק

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**Who acts:** Thou, head, rejoicing · **What happens:** stricken through, come, scatter, be, devour · **To what, where:** head, whirlwind, me, rejoicing, poor

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This is Habakkuk 3:14 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, head, rejoicing — and what happens in the verse to head, whirlwind, me, rejoicing, poor, 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 3 chapters of Habakkuk on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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נָקַ֤בְתָּ בְמַטָּיו֙ רֹ֣אשׁ פְּרָזָ֔יו יִסְעֲר֖וּ לַהֲפִיצֵ֑נִי עֲלִ֣יצֻתָ֔ם כְּמוֹ־לֶאֱכֹ֥ל עָנִ֖י בַּמִּסְתָּֽר׃

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[Thou hast stricken through with his own rods the head of his rulers, that come as a whirlwind to scatter me; whose rejoicing is as to devour the poor secretly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HAB.57/)

## 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:HAB:50
# text = נָקַ֤בְתָּ בְמַטָּיו֙ רֹ֣אשׁ פְּרָזָ֔יו יִסְעֲר֖וּ לַהֲפִיצֵ֑נִי עֲלִ֣יצֻתָ֔ם כְּמוֹ־לֶאֱכֹ֥ל עָנִ֖י בַּמִּסְתָּֽר׃
# verse = HAB.3.14
1	נָקַ֤בְתָּ	נָקַב	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2	0	root	_	Gloss=you.pierced|Ref=HAB_3:14!1|MId=o350030140011|Strong=5344|Frame=A0:350030080031;A1:350030140031;|Type=qatal
2-4	בְמַטָּיו֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
2	בְ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	3	case	_	Gloss=with|Ref=HAB_3:14!2|MId=o350030140021|Strong=0871a
3	מַטָּי	מַטֶּה	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	1	obl	_	Gloss=his.own|Ref=HAB_3:14!2|MId=o350030140022|Strong=4294
4	ו֙	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=arrows|Ref=HAB_3:14!2|MId=o350030140023|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
5	רֹ֣אשׁ	רֹאשׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	obj	_	Gloss=the.head|Ref=HAB_3:14!3|MId=o350030140031|Strong=7218
6-7	פְּרָזָ֔יו	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	פְּרָזָ֔י	פֶּרֶז	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	5	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=his.warriors|Ref=HAB_3:14!5|MId=o350030140051|Strong=6518
7	ו	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his|Ref=HAB_3:14!5|MId=o350030140052|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
8	יִסְעֲר֖וּ	סָעַר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	1	parataxis	_	Gloss=they.storm|Ref=HAB_3:14!6|MId=o350030140061|Strong=5590|Frame=A0:350030140051;|Type=yiqtol
9-11	לַהֲפִיצֵ֑נִי	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=HAB_3:14!7|MId=o350030140071|Strong=3807a
10	הֲפִיצ	פּוּץ	VERB	_	HebBinyan=HIPHIL	8	advcl	_	Gloss=scatter|Ref=HAB_3:14!7|MId=o350030140072|Strong=6327|Frame=AA:350030140051;A0:350030140073;|Type=infinitive_construct
11	ֵ֑נִי	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	Gloss=me|Ref=HAB_3:14!7|MId=o350030140073|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal
12-13	עֲלִ֣יצֻתָ֔ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	עֲלִ֣יצֻת	עֲלִיצֻת	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Gloss=exultation|Ref=HAB_3:14!8|MId=o350030140081|Strong=5951
13	ָ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=their|Ref=HAB_3:14!8|MId=o350030140082|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
14	כְּמוֹ־	כְּמוֹ	ADP	_	_	16	case	_	Gloss=[was].like|Ref=HAB_3:14!9|MId=o350030140091|Strong=3644|SpaceAfter=No
15-16	לֶאֱכֹ֥ל	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
15	לֶ	לְ	ADP	_	_	16	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=HAB_3:14!10|MId=o350030140101|Strong=3807a
16	אֱכֹ֥ל	אָכַל	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	1	parataxis	_	Gloss=devour|Ref=HAB_3:14!10|MId=o350030140102|Strong=0398|Frame=A0:350030140051;A1:350030140111;|Type=infinitive_construct
17	עָנִ֖י	עָנִי	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	16	obj	_	Gloss=[the].afflicted|Ref=HAB_3:14!11|MId=o350030140111|Strong=6041|Type=adjective
18-20	בַּמִּסְתָּֽר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
18	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	20	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=HAB_3:14!12|MId=o350030140121|Strong=0871a
19	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	20	det	_	Gloss=the.secret|Ref=HAB_3:14!12|MId=o350030140121ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
20	מִּסְתָּֽר	מִסְתָּר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Gloss=place|Ref=HAB_3:14!12|MId=o350030140122|Strong=4565
21	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	20	punct	_	Ref=HAB_3:14!12
```

## 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) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| נָקַבְתָּ *you pierced* | qatal · qal |  | רֹאשׁ *the head* |  |  |
| יִסְעֲרוּ *they storm* | yiqtol · qal | פְּרָזָי *his warriors* |  |  |  |
| הֲפִיצ *scatter* | infinitive construct · hiphil | ֵנִי *me* |  |  | פְּרָזָי *his warriors* |
| אֱכֹל *devour* | infinitive construct · qal | פְּרָזָי *his warriors* | עָנִי *\[the\] afflicted* |  |  |

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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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בְּזַעְתָּא יַמָא בְּחוּטְרֵיהּ דְמֹשֶׁה וְגִבָּרֵיהּ רֵישֵׁי מַשִׁרְיָת פַּרְעֹה דַחֲשִׁיבוּ מַחְשְׁבָן עַל עַמָךְ דַבַּרְתִּינוּן בְּרוּחַ עַלְעוֹלִין וּטְבַּעְתִּינוּן בְיַמָא דְסוּף עַל דִרְחִיקוּ וְשַׁעְבִּידוּ יַת עַמָךְ וִיהָבוּ עֵצָה בְּסִתְרָא לְאוֹבָדְהוֹן:

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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. [Thou hast stricken through with his own rods the head of his rulers, that come as a whirlwind to scatter me; whose rejoicing is as to devour the poor secretly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HAB.57/)

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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:HAB:50`.

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