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title: Habakkuk 3:16 — When I heard, mine inward parts trembled, my lips quivered at the vo… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: When I heard, mine inward parts trembled, my lips quivered at the voice; rottenness entereth into my bones, and I tremble where I stand; that I should wait for the day of trouble, when he cometh up against the people that he invadeth. Who acts: I, inward parts, lips, rottenness. Habakkuk 3:16 in Heb
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# Habakkuk 3:16 חֲבַקּוּק

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**Who acts:** I, inward parts, lips, rottenness · **What happens:** hear, tremble, quiver, enter, stand, wait · **To what, where:** bones, people

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This is Habakkuk 3:16 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 — I, inward parts, lips, rottenness — and what happens in the verse to bones, people, 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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שָׁמַ֣עְתִּי ׀ וַתִּרְגַּ֣ז בִּטְנִ֗י לְקוֹל֙ צָלֲל֣וּ שְׂפָתַ֔י יָב֥וֹא רָקָ֛ב בַּעֲצָמַ֖י וְתַחְתַּ֣י אֶרְגָּ֑ז אֲשֶׁ֤ר אָנ֙וּחַ֙ לְי֣וֹם צָרָ֔ה לַעֲל֖וֹת לְעַ֥ם יְגוּדֶֽנּוּ׃

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[When I heard, mine inward parts trembled, my lips quivered at the voice; rottenness entereth into my bones, and I tremble where I stand; that I should wait for the day of trouble, when he cometh up against the people that he invadeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HAB.59/)

## 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:52
# text = שָׁמַ֣עְתִּי ׀ וַתִּרְגַּ֣ז בִּטְנִ֗י לְקוֹל֙ צָלֲל֣וּ שְׂפָתַ֔י יָב֥וֹא רָקָ֛ב בַּעֲצָמַ֖י וְתַחְתַּ֣י אֶרְגָּ֑ז אֲשֶׁ֤ר אָנ֙וּחַ֙ לְי֣וֹם צָרָ֔ה לַעֲל֖וֹת לְעַ֥ם יְגוּדֶֽנּוּ׃
# verse = HAB.3.16
1	שָׁמַ֣עְתִּי	שָׁמַע	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1	0	root	_	Gloss=I.heard|Ref=HAB_3:16!1|MId=o350030160011|Strong=8085|Frame=A0:350030010022;|Type=qatal
2	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	_	1	punct	_	Ref=HAB_3:16!1
3-4	וַתִּרְגַּ֣ז	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	4	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=HAB_3:16!2|MId=o350030160021|Strong=2050b
4	תִּרְגַּ֣ז	רָגַז	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	1	conj	_	Gloss=it.trembled|Ref=HAB_3:16!2|MId=o350030160022|Strong=7264|Frame=A0:350030160031;|Type=wayyiqtol
5-6	בִּטְנִ֗י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
5	בִּטְנ	בֶּטֶן	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Gloss=belly|Ref=HAB_3:16!3|MId=o350030160031|Strong=0990
6	ִ֗י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=my|Ref=HAB_3:16!3|MId=o350030160032|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
7-8	לְקוֹל֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
7	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	8	case	_	Gloss=to.[the]|Ref=HAB_3:16!4|MId=o350030160041|Strong=3807a
8	קוֹל֙	קוֹל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Gloss=sound|Ref=HAB_3:16!4|MId=o350030160042|Strong=6963
9	צָלֲל֣וּ	צָלַל	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	1	parataxis	_	Gloss=they.quivered|Ref=HAB_3:16!5|MId=o350030160051|Strong=6750|Frame=A0:350030160061;|Type=qatal
10-11	שְׂפָתַ֔י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	שְׂפָת	שָׂפָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Dual	9	nsubj	_	Gloss=lips|Ref=HAB_3:16!6|MId=o350030160061|Strong=8193
11	ַ֔י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=my|Ref=HAB_3:16!6|MId=o350030160062|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
12	יָב֥וֹא	בּוֹא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	1	parataxis	_	Gloss=it.came|Ref=HAB_3:16!7|MId=o350030160071|Strong=0935|Frame=A0:350030160081;|Type=yiqtol
13	רָקָ֛ב	רָקָב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	Gloss=rottenness|Ref=HAB_3:16!8|MId=o350030160081|Strong=7538
14-16	בַּעֲצָמַ֖י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
14	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	15	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=HAB_3:16!9|MId=o350030160091|Strong=0871a
15	עֲצָמ	עֶצֶם	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	12	obl	_	Gloss=bones|Ref=HAB_3:16!9|MId=o350030160092|Strong=6106
16	ַ֖י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=my|Ref=HAB_3:16!9|MId=o350030160093|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
17-19	וְתַחְתַּ֣י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	20	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=HAB_3:16!10|MId=o350030160101|Strong=2050b
18	תַחְתּ	תַּחַת	NOUN	_	_	20	obl	_	Gloss=under|Ref=HAB_3:16!10|MId=o350030160102|Strong=8478
19	ַ֣י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=me|Ref=HAB_3:16!10|MId=o350030160103|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
20	אֶרְגָּ֑ז	רָגַז	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1	1	conj	_	Gloss=I.trembled|Ref=HAB_3:16!11|MId=o350030160111|Strong=7264|Frame=A0:350030010022;|Type=yiqtol
21	אֲשֶׁ֤ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	_	22	mark	_	Gloss=that|Ref=HAB_3:16!12|MId=o350030160121|Strong=0834|Type=relative
22	אָנ֙וּחַ֙	נוּחַ	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1	1	parataxis	_	Gloss=I.will.be.quiet|Ref=HAB_3:16!13|MId=o350030160131|Strong=5117|Frame=A0:350030010022;|Type=yiqtol
23-24	לְי֣וֹם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
23	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	24	case	_	Gloss=for.[the]|Ref=HAB_3:16!14|MId=o350030160141|Strong=3807a
24	י֣וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	22	obl	_	Gloss=day|Ref=HAB_3:16!14|MId=o350030160142|Strong=3117
25	צָרָ֔ה	צָרָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	24	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.trouble|Ref=HAB_3:16!15|MId=o350030160151|Strong=6869
26-27	לַעֲל֖וֹת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
26	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	_	27	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=HAB_3:16!16|MId=o350030160161|Strong=3807a
27	עֲל֖וֹת	עָלָה	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	22	advcl	_	Gloss=come.up|Ref=HAB_3:16!16|MId=o350030160162|Strong=5927|Frame=A0:350030160142;|Type=infinitive_construct
28-29	לְעַ֥ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
28	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	29	case	_	Gloss=to.[the]|Ref=HAB_3:16!17|MId=o350030160171|Strong=3807a
29	עַ֥ם	עַם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	27	obl	_	Gloss=people|Ref=HAB_3:16!17|MId=o350030160172|Strong=5971
30-31	יְגוּדֶֽנּוּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
30	יְגוּד	גּוּד	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	29	acl	_	Gloss=[which].it|Ref=HAB_3:16!18|MId=o350030160181|Strong=1464|Frame=A0:350030160172;A1:350030160182;|Type=yiqtol
31	ֶֽנּוּ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	Gloss=attacks.us|Ref=HAB_3:16!18|MId=o350030160182|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal
32	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	31	punct	_	Ref=HAB_3:16!18
```

## 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) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| שָׁמַעְתִּי *I heard* | qatal · qal |  |  |  |  |
| תִּרְגַּז *it trembled* | wayyiqtol · qal | בִּטְנ *belly* |  |  |  |
| צָלֲלוּ *they quivered* | qatal · qal | שְׂפָת *lips* |  |  |  |
| יָבוֹא *it came* | yiqtol · qal | רָקָב *rottenness* |  |  |  |
| אֶרְגָּז *I trembled* | yiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |
| אָנוּחַ *I will be quiet* | yiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |
| עֲלוֹת *come up* | infinitive construct · qal | יוֹם *day* |  |  |  |
| יְגוּד *\[which\] it* | yiqtol · qal | עַם *people* | ֶֽנּוּ *attacks us* |  |  |

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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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אֲמָרֵת בָּבֶל שְׁמָעֵית וְזָעוּ מַלְכַיָא מִן קֳדָם דִינָא דִי אִתְדָנוּ מִצְרַיִם לְקַל מִלַיָא אִלֵין צַלָא סִפְּוָתִי אֲחַד זִיעָא לְחַכִּימַיָא וּבְאָתַר דְשָׁרֵיָיא זָעֵית דְשַׁבְקַנִי לְיוֹם עָקָא לְעִדַן אַסְקָא גַלְוַת עַמִי מִנִי יִתְבְּרִינַנִי:

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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. [When I heard, mine inward parts trembled, my lips quivered at the voice; rottenness entereth into my bones, and I tremble where I stand; that I should wait for the day of trouble, when he cometh up against the people that he invadeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HAB.59/)

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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:52`.

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