--- title: Isaiah 38:20 — The LORD is ready to save me; therefore we will sing songs to the st… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: The LORD is ready to save me; therefore we will sing songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD. Who acts: LORD, we. Isaiah 38:20 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.38.20/) [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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/38/) / 38:20 # Isaiah 38:20 יְשַׁעְיָהוּ **Who acts:** LORD, we · **What happens:** be, save, sing · **To what, where:** me, songs, stringed instruments, house This is Isaiah 38:20 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 — LORD, we — and what happens in the verse to me, songs, stringed instruments, house, 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. יְהוָ֖ה לְהוֹשִׁיעֵ֑נִי וּנְגִנוֹתַ֧י נְנַגֵּ֛ן כָּל־יְמֵ֥י חַיֵּ֖ינוּ עַל־בֵּ֥ית יְהוָֽה׃ [The LORD is ready to save me; therefore we will sing songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.825/) ## 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:755 # text = יְהוָ֖ה לְהוֹשִׁיעֵ֑נִי וּנְגִנוֹתַ֧י נְנַגֵּ֛ן כָּל־יְמֵ֥י חַיֵּ֖ינוּ עַל־בֵּ֥ית יְהוָֽה׃ # verse = ISA.38.20 1 יְהוָ֖ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 3 nsubj _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=ISA_38:20!1|MId=o230380200011|Strong=3068 2-4 לְהוֹשִׁיעֵ֑נִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 3 case _ Gloss=[is].to|Ref=ISA_38:20!2|MId=o230380200021|Strong=3807a 3 הוֹשִׁיע יָשַׁע VERB _ HebBinyan=HIPHIL 0 root _ Gloss=save|Ref=ISA_38:20!2|MId=o230380200022|Strong=3467|Frame=AA:230380200011;A0:230380200023;|Type=infinitive_construct 4 ֵ֑נִי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ Gloss=me|Ref=ISA_38:20!2|MId=o230380200023|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal 5-6 וּנְגִנוֹתַ֧י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_38:20!3|MId=o230380200031|Strong=2050b 6 נְגִנוֹתַ֧י נְגִינָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 7 obl _ Gloss=stringed.instruments|Ref=ISA_38:20!3|MId=o230380200032|Strong=5058 7 נְנַגֵּ֛ן נָגַן VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur|Person=1 3 conj _ Gloss=we.will.play|Ref=ISA_38:20!4|MId=o230380200041|Strong=5059|Frame=A0:230380090022;230380190021;|Type=yiqtol 8 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 obl _ Gloss=all|Ref=ISA_38:20!5|MId=o230380200051|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No 9 יְמֵ֥י יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 8 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.days|Ref=ISA_38:20!6|MId=o230380200061|Strong=3117 10-11 חַיֵּ֖ינוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 חַיֵּ֖י חַיִּים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=our.lives|Ref=ISA_38:20!7|MId=o230380200071|Strong=2416 11 נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ Gloss=our|Ref=ISA_38:20!7|MId=o230380200072|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 12 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=at|Ref=ISA_38:20!8|MId=o230380200081|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 13 בֵּ֥ית בַּיִת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 obl _ Gloss=the.house|Ref=ISA_38:20!9|MId=o230380200091|Strong=1004 14 יְהוָֽה יהוה PROPN _ _ 13 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=ISA_38:20!10|MId=o230380200101|Strong=3068|SpaceAfter=No 15 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 14 punct _ Ref=ISA_38:20!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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | הוֹשִׁיע *save* | infinitive construct · hiphil | ֵנִי *me* | | | יְהוָה *Yahweh* | | נְנַגֵּן *we will play* | yiqtol · piel | | | | | 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} יְיָ לְמִפְרְקָנָא אֲמַר יְיָ וְנִגוּן תּוּשְׁבַּחְתֵּהּ נְנַגֵן כָּל יְמֵי חַיָנָא עַל בֵּית מַקְדְשָׁא דַיָי: 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. [The LORD is ready to save me; therefore we will sing songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.825/) **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:755`. - ← previous: [Isaiah 38:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.19/) - next →: [Isaiah 38:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.21/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/38/)