--- title: Judges 11:25 — And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them? Who acts: thou, LORD. Judges 11:25 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/JDG.11.25/) [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/) / [Judges](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/) / [chapter 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/11/) / 11:25 # Judges 11:25 שֹׁפְטִים **Who acts:** thou, LORD · **What happens:** be, strive, fight This is Judges 11:25 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 — thou, LORD — and what happens in the verse, 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 21 chapters of Judges on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וְעַתָּ֗ה הֲט֥וֹב טוֹב֙ אַתָּ֔ה מִבָּלָ֥ק בֶּן־צִפּ֖וֹר מֶ֣לֶךְ מוֹאָ֑ב הֲר֥וֹב רָב֙ עִם־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִם־נִלְחֹ֥ם נִלְחַ֖ם בָּֽם׃ [And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.363/) ## 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:JDG:344 # text = וְעַתָּ֗ה הֲט֥וֹב טוֹב֙ אַתָּ֔ה מִבָּלָ֥ק בֶּן־צִפּ֖וֹר מֶ֣לֶךְ מוֹאָ֑ב הֲר֥וֹב רָב֙ עִם־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִם־נִלְחֹ֥ם נִלְחַ֖ם בָּֽם׃ # verse = JDG.11.25 1-2 וְעַתָּ֗ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_11:25!1|MId=o070110250011|Strong=2050b 2 עַתָּ֗ה עַתָּה ADV _ _ 0 root _ Gloss=now|Ref=JDG_11:25!1|MId=o070110250012|Strong=6258 3-4 הֲט֥וֹב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 הֲ הֲ PART _ _ 5 advmod _ Gloss=really|Ref=JDG_11:25!2|MId=o070110250021|Strong=1886b|Type=interrogative 4 ט֥וֹב טוֹב VERB _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 obl:npmod _ Gloss=(good)?|Ref=JDG_11:25!2|MId=o070110250022|Strong=2895|Type=adjective 5 טוֹב֙ טוֹב VERB _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Gloss=are.you.good|Ref=JDG_11:25!3|MId=o070110250031|Strong=2895|Frame=A0:070110250041;|Type=adjective 6 אַתָּ֔ה אַתָּה PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ Gloss=you|Ref=JDG_11:25!4|MId=o070110250041|Strong=0859|Type=personal 7-8 מִבָּלָ֥ק _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=more|Ref=JDG_11:25!5|MId=o070110250051|Strong=4480 8 בָּלָ֥ק בָּלָק PROPN _ _ 5 obl _ Gloss=than.Balak|Ref=JDG_11:25!5|MId=o070110250052|Strong=1111 9 בֶּן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 appos _ Gloss=the.son|Ref=JDG_11:25!6|MId=o070110250061|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 10 צִפּ֖וֹר צִפּוֹר PROPN _ _ 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Zippor|Ref=JDG_11:25!7|MId=o070110250071|Strong=6834 11 מֶ֣לֶךְ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 appos _ Gloss=the.king|Ref=JDG_11:25!8|MId=o070110250081|Strong=4428 12 מוֹאָ֑ב מוֹאָב PROPN _ _ 11 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Moab|Ref=JDG_11:25!9|MId=o070110250091|Strong=4124 13-14 הֲר֥וֹב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 הֲ הֲ PART _ _ 15 advmod _ Gloss=ever|Ref=JDG_11:25!10|MId=o070110250101|Strong=1886b|Type=interrogative 14 ר֥וֹב רִיב VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 15 obl:npmod _ Gloss=(quarrel)?|Ref=JDG_11:25!10|MId=o070110250102|Strong=7378|Type=infinitive_absolute 15 רָב֙ רִיב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 parataxis _ Gloss=did.he.quarrel|Ref=JDG_11:25!11|MId=o070110250111|Strong=7378|Frame=A0:070110250052;|Type=qatal 16 עִם־ עִם ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=with|Ref=JDG_11:25!12|MId=o070110250121|Strong=5973|SpaceAfter=No 17 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 15 obl _ Gloss=Israel|Ref=JDG_11:25!13|MId=o070110250131|Strong=3478 18 אִם־ אִם SCONJ _ _ 20 mark _ Gloss=or?|Ref=JDG_11:25!14|MId=o070110250141|Strong=0518|SpaceAfter=No 19 נִלְחֹ֥ם לָחַם VERB _ HebBinyan=NIPHAL 20 obl:npmod _ Gloss=ever.(wage.war)|Ref=JDG_11:25!15|MId=o070110250151|Strong=3898|Type=infinitive_absolute 20 נִלְחַ֖ם לָחַם VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 15 parataxis _ Gloss=did.he.wage.war|Ref=JDG_11:25!16|MId=o070110250161|Strong=3898|Frame=A0:070110250052;|Type=qatal 21-22 בָּֽם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 בּ בְּ ADP _ _ 22 case _ Gloss=against|Ref=JDG_11:25!17|MId=o070110250171|Strong=0871a 22 ָֽם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ Gloss=them|Ref=JDG_11:25!17|MId=o070110250172|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 23 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 22 punct _ Ref=JDG_11:25!17 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | טוֹב *are you good* | adjective | אַתָּה *you* | | | | | רָב *did he quarrel* | qatal · qal | בָּלָק *than Balak* | | | | | נִלְחַם *did he wage war* | qatal · niphal | בָּלָק *than Balak* | | | | 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} וּכְעַן הֲטַב טַב אַתְּ מִבָּלָק בַּר צִפּוֹר מַלְכָּא דְמוֹאָב הֲמֵידַן דַן עִם יִשְׂרָאֵל אִם קְרָבָא אַגִיחַ בְּהוֹן: 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. [And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.363/) **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). 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