--- title: Isaiah 36:5 — I said: It is but vain words; for counsel and strength are for the w… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: I said: It is but vain words; for counsel and strength are for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me? Who acts: I, confidence, counsel, thou. Isaiah 36:5 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.36.5/) [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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/36/) / 36:5 # Isaiah 36:5 יְשַׁעְיָהוּ **Who acts:** I, confidence, counsel, thou · **What happens:** say, be, trust, rebel · **To what, where:** vain words · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Isaiah 36:5 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, confidence, counsel, thou — and what happens in the verse to vain words, 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. אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ אַךְ־דְּבַר־שְׂפָתַ֔יִם עֵצָ֥ה וּגְבוּרָ֖ה לַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה עַתָּה֙ עַל־מִ֣י בָטַ֔חְתָּ כִּ֥י מָרַ֖דְתָּ בִּֽי׃ [I said: It is but vain words; for counsel and strength are for the war.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.740/) [Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.741/) ## 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:680 # text = אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ אַךְ־דְּבַר־שְׂפָתַ֔יִם עֵצָ֥ה וּגְבוּרָ֖ה לַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה עַתָּה֙ עַל־מִ֣י בָטַ֔חְתָּ כִּ֥י מָרַ֖דְתָּ בִּֽי׃ # verse = ISA.36.5 1 אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 0 root _ Gloss=I.say|Ref=ISA_36:5!1|MId=o230360050011|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:230360040112;|Type=qatal 2 אַךְ־ אַךְ ADV _ _ 3 advmod _ Gloss=only|Ref=ISA_36:5!2|MId=o230360050021|Strong=0389|Type=affirmation|SpaceAfter=No 3 דְּבַר־ דָּבָר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 ccomp _ Gloss=a.word|Ref=ISA_36:5!3|MId=o230360050031|Strong=1697|SpaceAfter=No 4 שְׂפָתַ֔יִם שָׂפָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Dual 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.lips|Ref=ISA_36:5!4|MId=o230360050041|Strong=8193 5 עֵצָ֥ה עֵצָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Gloss=[is].a.plan|Ref=ISA_36:5!5|MId=o230360050051|Strong=6098 6-7 וּגְבוּרָ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_36:5!6|MId=o230360050061|Strong=2050b 7 גְבוּרָ֖ה גְּבוּרָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 5 conj _ Gloss=strength|Ref=ISA_36:5!6|MId=o230360050062|Strong=1369 8-10 לַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=ISA_36:5!7|MId=o230360050071|Strong=3807a 9 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 10 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=ISA_36:5!7|MId=o230360050071ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 10 מִּלְחָמָ֑ה מִלְחָמָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 7 nmod _ Gloss=war|Ref=ISA_36:5!7|MId=o230360050072|Strong=4421 11 עַתָּה֙ עַתָּה ADV _ _ 14 advmod _ Gloss=now|Ref=ISA_36:5!8|MId=o230360050081|Strong=6258 12 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=ISA_36:5!9|MId=o230360050091|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 13 מִ֣י מִי PRON _ PronType=Int 14 obl _ Gloss=whom?|Ref=ISA_36:5!10|MId=o230360050101|Strong=4310|Type=interrogative 14 בָטַ֔חְתָּ בָּטַח VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 3 ccomp _ Gloss=do.you.rely|Ref=ISA_36:5!11|MId=o230360050111|Strong=0982|Frame=A0:230360040081;|Type=qatal 15 כִּ֥י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 16 mark _ Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=ISA_36:5!12|MId=o230360050121|Strong=3588 16 מָרַ֖דְתָּ מָרַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 14 parataxis _ Gloss=you.have.rebelled|Ref=ISA_36:5!13|MId=o230360050131|Strong=4775|Frame=A0:230360040081;|Type=qatal 17-18 בִּֽי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 בּ בְּ ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=against|Ref=ISA_36:5!14|MId=o230360050141|Strong=0871a 18 ִֽי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ Gloss=me|Ref=ISA_36:5!14|MId=o230360050142|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 19 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 18 punct _ Ref=ISA_36:5!14 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · assert · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | אָמַרְתִּי *I say* | qatal · qal | | | | | | בָטַחְתָּ *do you rely* | qatal · qal | | | | | | מָרַדְתָּ *you have rebelled* | qatal · qal | | | | | 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} אֲמַרֵית בְּרַם בְּמַמְלֵל סִפְוָן בְּמֵלָךְ וּגְבוּרָא אַעְבֵּיד קְרָבָא כְּעַן עַל מַן אִיתְרַחֵיצְתָּא אֲרֵי מְרַדְתָּא בִּי: 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. [I said: It is but vain words; for counsel and strength are for the war.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.740/) 2. [Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.741/) **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:680`. - ← previous: [Isaiah 36:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.36.4/) - next →: [Isaiah 36:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.36.6/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/36/)