--- title: Isaiah 56:2 — Happy is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that holdeth fa… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Happy is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that holdeth fast by it: that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. Who acts: man, son. Isaiah 56:2 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.56.2/) [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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/56/) / 56:2 # Isaiah 56:2 יְשַׁעְיָהוּ **Who acts:** man, son · **What happens:** be, do, hold, keep, profane · **To what, where:** this, sabbath, hand, evil This is Isaiah 56:2 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 — man, son — and what happens in the verse to this, sabbath, hand, evil, 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. אַשְׁרֵ֤י אֱנוֹשׁ֙ יַעֲשֶׂה־זֹּ֔את וּבֶן־אָדָ֖ם יַחֲזִ֣יק בָּ֑הּ שֹׁמֵ֤ר שַׁבָּת֙ מֵֽחַלְּל֔וֹ וְשֹׁמֵ֥ר יָד֖וֹ מֵעֲשׂ֥וֹת כָּל־רָֽע׃ס [Happy is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that holdeth fast by it: that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1219/) ## 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:1100 # text = אַשְׁרֵ֤י אֱנוֹשׁ֙ יַעֲשֶׂה־זֹּ֔את וּבֶן־אָדָ֖ם יַחֲזִ֣יק בָּ֑הּ שֹׁמֵ֤ר שַׁבָּת֙ מֵֽחַלְּל֔וֹ וְשֹׁמֵ֥ר יָד֖וֹ מֵעֲשׂ֥וֹת כָּל־רָֽע׃ס # verse = ISA.56.2 1 אַשְׁרֵ֤י אֶשֶׁר INTJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 0 root _ Gloss=how.blessed!|Ref=ISA_56:2!1|MId=o230560020011|Strong=0835a 2 אֱנוֹשׁ֙ אֱנוֹשׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ Gloss=[is.the].person|Ref=ISA_56:2!2|MId=o230560020021|Strong=0582 3 יַעֲשֶׂה־ עָשָׂה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 acl _ Gloss=[who].he.does|Ref=ISA_56:2!3|MId=o230560020031|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:230560020021;A1:230560020041;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No 4 זֹּ֔את זֹאת PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 obj _ Gloss=this|Ref=ISA_56:2!4|MId=o230560020041|Strong=2063|Type=demonstrative 5-6 וּבֶן־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 6 cc _ Gloss=and.[the]|Ref=ISA_56:2!5|MId=o230560020051|Strong=2050b 6 בֶן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 conj _ Gloss=child|Ref=ISA_56:2!5|MId=o230560020052|Strong=1121 7 אָדָ֖ם אָדָם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.humankind|Ref=ISA_56:2!6|MId=o230560020061|Strong=0120 8 יַחֲזִ֣יק חָזַק VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 6 acl _ Gloss=[who].he.takes.hold|Ref=ISA_56:2!7|MId=o230560020071|Strong=2388|Frame=A0:230560020052;|Type=yiqtol 9-10 בָּ֑הּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 בּ בְּ ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=ISA_56:2!8|MId=o230560020081|Strong=0871a 10 ָ֑הּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ Gloss=it|Ref=ISA_56:2!8|MId=o230560020082|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 11 שֹׁמֵ֤ר שָׁמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 2 acl:relcl _ Gloss=[who].keeps|Ref=ISA_56:2!9|MId=o230560020091|Strong=8104|Frame=A0:230560020021;A1:230560020101;|Type=participle_active 12 שַׁבָּת֙ שַׁבָּת NOUN _ Number=Sing 11 obj _ Gloss=[the].sabbath|Ref=ISA_56:2!10|MId=o230560020101|Strong=7676 13-15 מֵֽחַלְּל֔וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 מֵֽ מִן ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=ISA_56:2!11|MId=o230560020111|Strong=4480 14 חַלְּל חָלַל VERB _ HebBinyan=PIEL 11 xcomp _ Gloss=profaning|Ref=ISA_56:2!11|MId=o230560020112|Strong=2490|Frame=A0:230560020021;A1:230560020113;|Type=infinitive_construct 15 ֔וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ Gloss=it|Ref=ISA_56:2!11|MId=o230560020113|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 16-17 וְשֹׁמֵ֥ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 17 cc _ Gloss=and.[who]|Ref=ISA_56:2!12|MId=o230560020121|Strong=2050b 17 שֹׁמֵ֥ר שָׁמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 11 conj _ Gloss=keeps|Ref=ISA_56:2!12|MId=o230560020122|Strong=8104|Frame=A0:230560020021;A1:230560020131;|Type=participle_active 18-19 יָד֖וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 יָד יָד NOUN _ Number=Sing 17 obj _ Gloss=hand|Ref=ISA_56:2!13|MId=o230560020131|Strong=3027 19 ֖וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=ISA_56:2!13|MId=o230560020132|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 20-21 מֵעֲשׂ֥וֹת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 מֵ מִן ADP _ _ 21 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=ISA_56:2!14|MId=o230560020141|Strong=4480 21 עֲשׂ֥וֹת עָשָׂה VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 17 xcomp _ Gloss=doing|Ref=ISA_56:2!14|MId=o230560020142|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:230560020131;A1:230560020161;|Type=infinitive_construct 22 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 21 obj _ Gloss=any|Ref=ISA_56:2!15|MId=o230560020151|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No 23 רָֽע רַע ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 22 compound:smixut _ Gloss=evil|Ref=ISA_56:2!16|MId=o230560020161|Strong=7451|Type=adjective|SpaceAfter=No 24 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 23 punct _ Ref=ISA_56:2!16|SpaceAfter=No 25 ס ס PUNCT _ _ 23 punct _ Ref=ISA_56:2!16 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יַעֲשֶׂה־ *\[who\] he does* | yiqtol · qal | אֱנוֹשׁ *\[is the\] person* | זֹּאת *this* | | | | יַחֲזִיק *\[who\] he takes hold* | yiqtol · hiphil | בֶן־ *child* | | | | | שֹׁמֵר *\[who\] keeps* | participle active · qal | אֱנוֹשׁ *\[is the\] person* | שַׁבָּת *\[the\] sabbath* | | | | חַלְּל *profaning* | infinitive construct · piel | אֱנוֹשׁ *\[is the\] person* | וֹ *it* | | | | שֹׁמֵר *keeps* | participle active · qal | אֱנוֹשׁ *\[is the\] person* | יָד *hand* | | | | עֲשׂוֹת *doing* | infinitive construct · qal | יָד *hand* | רָֽע *evil* | | | 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} טוּבֵי אֱנָשׁ דְיַעְבַּד דָא וּבַר אֱנָשָׁא דְיִתְקֵף בָּהּ יִטַר שַׁבְּתָא מֵאַחֲלוּתֵהּ וְיִטֵר יְדוֹהִי מִלְמֶעְבַּד כָּל דְבִישׁ: 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. [Happy is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that holdeth fast by it: that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1219/) **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:1100`. - ← previous: [Isaiah 56:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.56.1/) - next →: [Isaiah 56:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.56.3/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/56/)