--- title: Isaiah 59:5 — They hatch basilisks' eggs, and weave the spider's web; he that eate… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: They hatch basilisks' eggs, and weave the spider's web; he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. Who acts: lips, tongue, that. Isaiah 59:5 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.59.5/) [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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/59/) / 59:5 # Isaiah 59:5 יְשַׁעְיָהוּ **Who acts:** lips, tongue, that · **What happens:** hatch, weave, eat, die, crush, break out · **To what, where:** eggs, web This is Isaiah 59:5 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 — lips, tongue, that — and what happens in the verse to eggs, web, 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. בֵּיצֵ֤י צִפְעוֹנִי֙ בִּקֵּ֔עוּ וְקוּרֵ֥י עַכָּבִ֖ישׁ יֶאֱרֹ֑גוּ הָאֹכֵ֤ל מִבֵּֽיצֵיהֶם֙ יָמ֔וּת וְהַזּוּרֶ֖ה תִּבָּקַ֥ע אֶפְעֶֽה׃ [They hatch basilisks' eggs, and weave the spider's web; he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1278/) ## 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:1150 # text = בֵּיצֵ֤י צִפְעוֹנִי֙ בִּקֵּ֔עוּ וְקוּרֵ֥י עַכָּבִ֖ישׁ יֶאֱרֹ֑גוּ הָאֹכֵ֤ל מִבֵּֽיצֵיהֶם֙ יָמ֔וּת וְהַזּוּרֶ֖ה תִּבָּקַ֥ע אֶפְעֶֽה׃ # verse = ISA.59.5 1 בֵּיצֵ֤י בֵּיצָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 3 obj _ Gloss=eggs|Ref=ISA_59:5!1|MId=o230590050011|Strong=1000 2 צִפְעוֹנִי֙ צִפְעֹנִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.a.viper|Ref=ISA_59:5!2|MId=o230590050021|Strong=6848a 3 בִּקֵּ֔עוּ בָּקַע VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.have.hatched|Ref=ISA_59:5!3|MId=o230590050031|Strong=1234|Frame=A0:230580010113;A1:230590050011;|Type=qatal 4-5 וְקוּרֵ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_59:5!4|MId=o230590050041|Strong=2050b 5 קוּרֵ֥י קוּר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 7 obj _ Gloss=webs|Ref=ISA_59:5!4|MId=o230590050042|Strong=6980 6 עַכָּבִ֖ישׁ עַכָּבִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.a.spider|Ref=ISA_59:5!5|MId=o230590050051|Strong=5908 7 יֶאֱרֹ֑גוּ אָרַג VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 3 conj _ Gloss=they.weave|Ref=ISA_59:5!6|MId=o230590050061|Strong=0707|Frame=A0:230580010113;A1:230590050042;|Type=yiqtol 8-9 הָאֹכֵ֤ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 הָ הַ SCONJ _ _ 9 mark _ Gloss=the.[one|Ref=ISA_59:5!7|MId=o230590050071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 9 אֹכֵ֤ל אָכַל VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Gloss=who].eats|Ref=ISA_59:5!7|MId=o230590050072|Strong=0398|Type=participle_active 10-12 מִבֵּֽיצֵיהֶם֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=any|Ref=ISA_59:5!8|MId=o230590050081|Strong=4480 11 בֵּֽיצֵי בֵּיצָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 9 obl _ Gloss=of|Ref=ISA_59:5!8|MId=o230590050082|Strong=1000 12 הֶם֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Gloss=their.eggs|Ref=ISA_59:5!8|MId=o230590050083|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 13 יָמ֔וּת מוּת VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 3 parataxis _ Gloss=he.will.die|Ref=ISA_59:5!9|MId=o230590050091|Strong=4191|Frame=A0:230590050072;|Type=yiqtol 14-16 וְהַזּוּרֶ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 17 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_59:5!10|MId=o230590050101|Strong=2050b 15 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 16 det _ Gloss=the.pressed|Ref=ISA_59:5!10|MId=o230590050102|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 16 זּוּרֶ֖ה זור VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 17 obl _ Gloss=[egg]|Ref=ISA_59:5!10|MId=o230590050103|Strong=2115|Type=participle_passive 17 תִּבָּקַ֥ע בָּקַע VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 3 conj _ Gloss=it.is.hatched|Ref=ISA_59:5!11|MId=o230590050111|Strong=1234|Frame=A1:230590050121;|Type=yiqtol 18 אֶפְעֶֽה אֶפְעֶה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Gloss=a.snake|Ref=ISA_59:5!12|MId=o230590050121|Strong=0660|SpaceAfter=No 19 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 18 punct _ Ref=ISA_59:5!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | בִּקֵּעוּ *they have hatched* | qatal · piel | | בֵּיצֵי *eggs* | | | | יֶאֱרֹגוּ *they weave* | yiqtol · qal | | קוּרֵי *webs* | | | | יָמוּת *he will die* | yiqtol · qal | אֹכֵל *who\] eats* | | | | | תִּבָּקַע *it is hatched* | yiqtol · qal | | אֶפְעֶֽה *a snake* | | | 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} הָא כְבֵיעֵי חֵיוִי חוּרְמְנִין מְפַרְתִין וּכְקַוִין דְעַכּוֹבִיתָא מָחַיָא דְמַן דְאָכִיל מִבֵּיעֵיהוֹן מָאֵית וּמְשַׁחְנָן וּמַפְקָן חֵיוָן חוּרְמְנִין מְפַרְתִין: 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. [They hatch basilisks' eggs, and weave the spider's web; he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1278/) **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:1150`. - ← previous: [Isaiah 59:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.4/) - next →: [Isaiah 59:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.6/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/59/)