--- title: Isaiah 41:12 — Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that conten… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee; they that warred against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. Who acts: Thou, parts. 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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 — Thou, parts — and what happens in the verse to parts, 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. תְּבַקְשֵׁם֙ וְלֹ֣א תִמְצָאֵ֔ם אַנְשֵׁ֖י מַצֻּתֶ֑ךָ יִהְי֥וּ כְאַ֛יִן וּכְאֶ֖פֶס אַנְשֵׁ֥י מִלְחַמְתֶּֽךָ׃ [Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee; they that warred against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.887/) ## 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:808 # text = תְּבַקְשֵׁם֙ וְלֹ֣א תִמְצָאֵ֔ם אַנְשֵׁ֖י מַצֻּתֶ֑ךָ יִהְי֥וּ כְאַ֛יִן וּכְאֶ֖פֶס אַנְשֵׁ֥י מִלְחַמְתֶּֽךָ׃ # verse = ISA.41.12 1-2 תְּבַקְשֵׁם֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 תְּבַקְשׁ בָּקַשׁ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=2 0 root _ Gloss=you|Ref=ISA_41:12!1|MId=o230410120011|Strong=1245|Frame=A0:230410080021;A1:230410120012;|Type=yiqtol 2 ֵם֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ Gloss=will.seek.them|Ref=ISA_41:12!1|MId=o230410120012|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 3-4 וְלֹ֣א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 5 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_41:12!2|MId=o230410120021|Strong=2050b 4 לֹ֣א לֹא ADV _ _ 5 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=ISA_41:12!2|MId=o230410120022|Strong=3808|Type=negative 5-6 תִמְצָאֵ֔ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 תִמְצָא מָצָא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 1 conj _ Gloss=you|Ref=ISA_41:12!3|MId=o230410120031|Strong=4672|Frame=A0:230410080021;A1:230410120032;|Type=yiqtol 6 ֵ֔ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ Gloss=will.find.them|Ref=ISA_41:12!3|MId=o230410120032|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 7 אַנְשֵׁ֖י אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 6 appos _ Gloss=the.people|Ref=ISA_41:12!4|MId=o230410120041|Strong=0376 8-9 מַצֻּתֶ֑ךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 מַצֻּת מַצֻּת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=your.strife|Ref=ISA_41:12!5|MId=o230410120051|Strong=4695 9 ֶ֑ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=ISA_41:12!5|MId=o230410120052|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 10 יִהְי֥וּ הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 12 cop _ Gloss=they.will.be|Ref=ISA_41:12!6|MId=o230410120061|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:230410120091;|Type=yiqtol 11-12 כְאַ֛יִן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 כְ כְּ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=as|Ref=ISA_41:12!7|MId=o230410120071|Strong=3509a 12 אַ֛יִן אַיִן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ Gloss=nothing|Ref=ISA_41:12!7|MId=o230410120072|Strong=0369 13-15 וּכְאֶ֖פֶס _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 15 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_41:12!8|MId=o230410120081|Strong=2050b 14 כְ כְּ ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=as|Ref=ISA_41:12!8|MId=o230410120082|Strong=3509a 15 אֶ֖פֶס אֶפֶס NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 12 conj _ Gloss=nothing|Ref=ISA_41:12!8|MId=o230410120083|Strong=0657 16 אַנְשֵׁ֥י אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ Gloss=the.people|Ref=ISA_41:12!9|MId=o230410120091|Strong=0376 17-18 מִלְחַמְתֶּֽךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 מִלְחַמְתּ מִלְחֶמֶת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 16 compound:smixut _ Gloss=your.warfare|Ref=ISA_41:12!10|MId=o230410120101|Strong=4421 18 ֶֽךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=ISA_41:12!10|MId=o230410120102|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 19 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 18 punct _ Ref=ISA_41:12!10 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: yes - indirect: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **not** תְּבַקְשׁ *you* | yiqtol · piel | | ֵם *will seek them* | | | | **not** תִמְצָא *you* | yiqtol · qal | | ֵם *will find them* | | | | יִהְיוּ *they will be* | yiqtol · qal | אַנְשֵׁי *the people* | | | | 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} תַּבְעִינוּן וְלָא תַשְׁכְּחִינוּן לְאַנְשֵׁי מַצוּתָךְ יְהוֹן כִּלְמָא וּכְלָא מִדָעַם גַבְרִין דַהֲווֹ מִתְגָרִין לְמֶעְבַּד עִמָךְ קְרָב: 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. [Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee; they that warred against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.887/) **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:808`. - ← previous: [Isaiah 41:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.41.11/) - next →: [Isaiah 41:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.41.13/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/41/)