--- title: Isaiah 16:2 — For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so sh… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon. Who acts: daughters. Isaiah 16:2 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/ISA.16.2/) [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/) / [Isaiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/) / [chapter 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/16/) / 16:2 # Isaiah 16:2 יְשַׁעְיָהוּ **Who acts:** daughters · **What happens:** be, wander, scatter · **To what, where:** wilderness, fords This is Isaiah 16:2 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 — daughters — and what happens in the verse to wilderness, fords, 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 66 chapters of Isaiah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וְהָיָ֥ה כְעוֹף־נוֹדֵ֖ד קֵ֣ן מְשֻׁלָּ֑ח תִּֽהְיֶ֙ינָה֙ בְּנ֣וֹת מוֹאָ֔ב מַעְבָּרֹ֖ת לְאַרְנֽוֹן׃ [For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.346/) ## 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:ISA:316 # text = וְהָיָ֥ה כְעוֹף־נוֹדֵ֖ד קֵ֣ן מְשֻׁלָּ֑ח תִּֽהְיֶ֙ינָה֙ בְּנ֣וֹת מוֹאָ֔ב מַעְבָּרֹ֖ת לְאַרְנֽוֹן׃ # verse = ISA.16.2 1-2 וְהָיָ֥ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 4 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_16:2!1|MId=o230160020011|Strong=2050b 2 הָיָ֥ה הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 4 cop _ Gloss=it.will.be|Ref=ISA_16:2!1|MId=o230160020012|Strong=1961|Type=weqatal 3-4 כְעוֹף־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 כְ כְּ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=like|Ref=ISA_16:2!2|MId=o230160020021|Strong=3509a 4 עוֹף־ עוֹף NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=a.bird|Ref=ISA_16:2!2|MId=o230160020022|Strong=5775 5 נוֹדֵ֖ד נָדַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 4 nmod _ Gloss=fluttering|Ref=ISA_16:2!3|MId=o230160020031|Strong=5074|Frame=A0:230160020022;|Type=participle_active 6 קֵ֣ן קֵן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 appos _ Gloss=a.nest|Ref=ISA_16:2!4|MId=o230160020041|Strong=7064 7 מְשֻׁלָּ֑ח שָׁלַח VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PUAL|Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Gloss=sent.away|Ref=ISA_16:2!5|MId=o230160020051|Strong=7971|Frame=A1:230160020041;|Type=participle_passive 8 תִּֽהְיֶ֙ינָה֙ הָיָה VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 4 parataxis _ Gloss=they.will.be|Ref=ISA_16:2!6|MId=o230160020061|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:230160020071;|Type=yiqtol 9 בְּנ֣וֹת בַּת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ Gloss=the.daughters|Ref=ISA_16:2!7|MId=o230160020071|Strong=1323 10 מוֹאָ֔ב מוֹאָב PROPN _ _ 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Moab|Ref=ISA_16:2!8|MId=o230160020081|Strong=4124 11 מַעְבָּרֹ֖ת מַעֲבָרָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 8 obl _ Gloss=[the].fords|Ref=ISA_16:2!9|MId=o230160020091|Strong=4569a 12-13 לְאַרְנֽוֹן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=of|Ref=ISA_16:2!10|MId=o230160020101|Strong=3807a 13 אַרְנֽוֹן אַרְנוֹן PROPN _ _ 11 nmod _ Gloss=Arnon|Ref=ISA_16:2!10|MId=o230160020102|Strong=0769 14 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 13 punct _ Ref=ISA_16:2!10 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | נוֹדֵד *fluttering* | participle active · qal | עוֹף־ *a bird* | | | | | מְשֻׁלָּח *sent away* | participle passive · pual | | קֵן *a nest* | | | | תִּֽהְיֶינָה *they will be* | yiqtol · qal | בְּנוֹת *the daughters* | | | | 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} וִיהֵי כְעוֹפָא דְאַפְרָחוֹהִי מִקִנֵיהּ וִיטַלְטֵיל יִתַּפְקָן וִיהֶוְיָן בְּנַת מוֹאָב מְגִיזַן לְהוֹן לְאַרְנוֹן: 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. [For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.346/) **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:ISA:316`. - ← previous: [Isaiah 16:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.16.1/) - next →: [Isaiah 16:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.16.3/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/16/)