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title: Isaiah 32:6 — For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work ini… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise ungodliness, and to utter wickedness against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. Who acts: vile person, heart. Isaiah 32:6 in Hebrew with its dependency t
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# Isaiah 32:6 יְשַׁעְיָהוּ

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**Who acts:** vile person, heart · **What happens:** speak, work, practise, utter, make, cause · **To what, where:** villainy, iniquity, ungodliness, wickedness, drink · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse

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This is Isaiah 32:6 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 — vile person, heart — and what happens in the verse to villainy, iniquity, ungodliness, wickedness, drink, 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.

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כִּ֤י נָבָל֙ נְבָלָ֣ה יְדַבֵּ֔ר וְלִבּ֖וֹ יַעֲשֶׂה־אָ֑וֶן לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת חֹ֗נֶף וּלְדַבֵּ֤ר אֶל־יְהוָה֙ תּוֹעָ֔ה לְהָרִיק֙ נֶ֣פֶשׁ רָעֵ֔ב וּמַשְׁקֶ֥ה צָמֵ֖א יַחְסִֽיר׃

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[For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise ungodliness, and to utter wickedness against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.666/)

## 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:ISA:610
# text = כִּ֤י נָבָל֙ נְבָלָ֣ה יְדַבֵּ֔ר וְלִבּ֖וֹ יַעֲשֶׂה־אָ֑וֶן לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת חֹ֗נֶף וּלְדַבֵּ֤ר אֶל־יְהוָה֙ תּוֹעָ֔ה לְהָרִיק֙ נֶ֣פֶשׁ רָעֵ֔ב וּמַשְׁקֶ֥ה צָמֵ֖א יַחְסִֽיר׃
# verse = ISA.32.6
1	כִּ֤י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	4	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=ISA_32:6!1|MId=o230320060011|Strong=3588
2	נָבָל֙	נָבָל	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Gloss=a.fool|Ref=ISA_32:6!2|MId=o230320060021|Strong=5036|Type=adjective
3	נְבָלָ֣ה	נְבָלָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Gloss=disgraceful.folly|Ref=ISA_32:6!3|MId=o230320060031|Strong=5039
4	יְדַבֵּ֔ר	דָבַר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.speaks|Ref=ISA_32:6!4|MId=o230320060041|Strong=1696|Frame=A0:230320060021;A1:230320060031;|Type=yiqtol
5-7	וְלִבּ֖וֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
5	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	8	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_32:6!5|MId=o230320060051|Strong=2050b
6	לִבּ	לֵב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Gloss=heart|Ref=ISA_32:6!5|MId=o230320060052|Strong=3820
7	֖וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his|Ref=ISA_32:6!5|MId=o230320060053|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
8	יַעֲשֶׂה־	עָשָׂה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	4	conj	_	Gloss=it.does|Ref=ISA_32:6!6|MId=o230320060061|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:230320060052;A1:230320060071;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No
9	אָ֑וֶן	אָוֶן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	8	obj	_	Gloss=wickedness|Ref=ISA_32:6!7|MId=o230320060071|Strong=0205
10-11	לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	_	11	case	_	Gloss=by|Ref=ISA_32:6!8|MId=o230320060081|Strong=3807a
11	עֲשׂ֣וֹת	עָשָׂה	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	8	advcl	_	Gloss=doing|Ref=ISA_32:6!8|MId=o230320060082|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:230320060021;A1:230320060091;|Type=infinitive_construct
12	חֹ֗נֶף	חֹנֶף	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	11	obj	_	Gloss=godlessness|Ref=ISA_32:6!9|MId=o230320060091|Strong=2612
13-15	וּלְדַבֵּ֤ר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	15	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_32:6!10|MId=o230320060101|Strong=2050b
14	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	15	case	_	Gloss=by|Ref=ISA_32:6!10|MId=o230320060102|Strong=3807a
15	דַבֵּ֤ר	דָבַר	VERB	_	HebBinyan=PIEL	11	conj	_	Gloss=speaking|Ref=ISA_32:6!10|MId=o230320060103|Strong=1696|Frame=A0:230320060021;A1:230320060131;|Type=infinitive_construct
16	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	_	17	case	_	Gloss=concerning|Ref=ISA_32:6!11|MId=o230320060111|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No
17	יְהוָה֙	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	15	obl	_	Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=ISA_32:6!12|MId=o230320060121|Strong=3068
18	תּוֹעָ֔ה	תּוֹעָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	15	obj	_	Gloss=error|Ref=ISA_32:6!13|MId=o230320060131|Strong=8442
19-20	לְהָרִיק֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
19	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	20	case	_	Gloss=by|Ref=ISA_32:6!14|MId=o230320060141|Strong=3807a
20	הָרִיק֙	רִיק	VERB	_	HebBinyan=HIPHIL	11	conj	_	Gloss=keeping.empty|Ref=ISA_32:6!14|MId=o230320060142|Strong=7324a|Frame=AA:230320060021;A0:230320060151;|Type=infinitive_construct
21	נֶ֣פֶשׁ	נֶפֶשׁ	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	Gloss=[the].appetite|Ref=ISA_32:6!15|MId=o230320060151|Strong=5315
22	רָעֵ֔ב	רָעֵב	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	21	amod	_	Gloss=of.[the].hungry|Ref=ISA_32:6!16|MId=o230320060161|Strong=7457|Type=adjective
23-24	וּמַשְׁקֶ֥ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
23	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	26	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_32:6!17|MId=o230320060171|Strong=2050b
24	מַשְׁקֶ֥ה	מַשְׁקֶה	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	26	obj	_	Gloss=drink|Ref=ISA_32:6!17|MId=o230320060172|Strong=4945
25	צָמֵ֖א	צָמֵא	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	24	amod	_	Gloss=[the].thirsty|Ref=ISA_32:6!18|MId=o230320060181|Strong=6771|Type=adjective
26	יַחְסִֽיר	חָסֵר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3	20	conj	_	Gloss=he.deprives|Ref=ISA_32:6!19|MId=o230320060191|Strong=2637|Frame=AA:230320060021;A0:230320060172;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No
27	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	26	punct	_	Ref=ISA_32:6!19
```

## 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) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יְדַבֵּר *he speaks* | yiqtol · piel | נָבָל *a fool* | נְבָלָה *disgraceful folly* |  |  |
| יַעֲשֶׂה־ *it does* | yiqtol · qal | לִבּ *heart* | אָוֶן *wickedness* |  |  |
| עֲשׂוֹת *doing* | infinitive construct · qal | נָבָל *a fool* | חֹנֶף *godlessness* |  |  |
| דַבֵּר *speaking* | infinitive construct · piel | נָבָל *a fool* | תּוֹעָה *error* |  |  |
| הָרִיק *keeping empty* | infinitive construct · hiphil | נֶפֶשׁ *\[the\] appetite* |  |  | נָבָל *a fool* |
| יַחְסִֽיר *he deprives* | yiqtol · hiphil | מַשְׁקֶה *drink* |  |  | נָבָל *a fool* |

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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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אֲרֵי רַשִׁיעַיָא רִשְׁעָה מְמַלְלִין וּבְלִיבְּהוֹן מִתְעַשְׁתִּין אוֹנֶס לְמֶעְבַּד שְׁקַר וּלְמַלָלָא קֳדָם יְיָ סַטְיָא לְשַׁלְהָאָה נֶפֶשׁ צַדִיקַיָא דִמְחַמְדִין לְאוּלְפָנָא הָא כְּכָפְנָא לְלַחְמָא וּפִתְגָמֵי אוֹרַיְתָא דְאִינוּן כְּמַיָא לְצַחָיָא מְדַמָן לְבַטָלָא:

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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. [For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise ungodliness, and to utter wickedness against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.666/)

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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:ISA:610`.

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