--- title: Judges 12:14 — And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, that rode on threescore… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts; and he judged Israel eight years. Who acts: Abdon, forty sons. Judges 12:14 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.12.14/) [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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/12/) / 12:14 # Judges 12:14 שֹׁפְטִים **Who acts:** Abdon, forty sons · **What happens:** have, ride, judge · **To what, where:** forty sons, threescore ass colts, Israel This is Judges 12:14 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 — Abdon, forty sons — and what happens in the verse to forty sons, threescore ass colts, Israel, 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. וַיְהִי־ל֞וֹ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים בָּנִ֗ים וּשְׁלֹשִׁים֙ בְּנֵ֣י בָנִ֔ים רֹכְבִ֖ים עַל־שִׁבְעִ֣ים עֲיָרִ֑ם וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֥ט אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל שְׁמֹנֶ֥ה שָׁנִֽים׃ [And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts; and he judged Israel eight years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.396/) ## 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:373 # text = וַיְהִי־ל֞וֹ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים בָּנִ֗ים וּשְׁלֹשִׁים֙ בְּנֵ֣י בָנִ֔ים רֹכְבִ֖ים עַל־שִׁבְעִ֣ים עֲיָרִ֑ם וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֥ט אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל שְׁמֹנֶ֥ה שָׁנִֽים׃ # verse = JDG.12.14 1-2 וַיְהִי־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_12:14!1|MId=o070120140011|Strong=2050b 2 יְהִי־ הָיָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=it.belonged|Ref=JDG_12:14!1|MId=o070120140012|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:070120140041;070120140061;|Type=wayyiqtol 3-4 ל֞וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 ל לְ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=JDG_12:14!2|MId=o070120140021|Strong=3807a 4 ֞וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ Gloss=him|Ref=JDG_12:14!2|MId=o070120140022|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 5 אַרְבָּעִ֣ים אַרְבַּע NUM _ Number=Plur 6 nummod _ Gloss=forty|Ref=JDG_12:14!3|MId=o070120140031|Strong=0705|Type=cardinal_number 6 בָּנִ֗ים בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Gloss=sons|Ref=JDG_12:14!4|MId=o070120140041|Strong=1121 7-8 וּשְׁלֹשִׁים֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_12:14!5|MId=o070120140051|Strong=2050b 8 שְׁלֹשִׁים֙ שָׁלֹשׁ NUM _ Number=Plur 9 nummod _ Gloss=thirty|Ref=JDG_12:14!5|MId=o070120140052|Strong=7970|Type=cardinal_number 9 בְּנֵ֣י בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 6 conj _ Gloss=sons|Ref=JDG_12:14!6|MId=o070120140061|Strong=1121 10 בָנִ֔ים בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.sons|Ref=JDG_12:14!7|MId=o070120140071|Strong=1121 11 רֹכְבִ֖ים רָכַב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 6 acl:relcl _ Gloss=[who].rode|Ref=JDG_12:14!8|MId=o070120140081|Strong=7392|Frame=A0:070120140041;070120140061;|Type=participle_active 12 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=JDG_12:14!9|MId=o070120140091|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 13 שִׁבְעִ֣ים שֶׁבַע NUM _ Number=Plur 14 nummod _ Gloss=seventy|Ref=JDG_12:14!10|MId=o070120140101|Strong=7657|Type=cardinal_number 14 עֲיָרִ֑ם עַיִר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 11 obl _ Gloss=male.donkeys|Ref=JDG_12:14!11|MId=o070120140111|Strong=5895 15-16 וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֥ט _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_12:14!12|MId=o070120140121|Strong=2050b 16 יִּשְׁפֹּ֥ט שָׁפַט VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.judged|Ref=JDG_12:14!12|MId=o070120140122|Strong=8199|Frame=A0:070120130051;A1:070120140141;|Type=wayyiqtol 17 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=JDG_12:14!13|MId=o070120140131|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 18 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 16 obj _ Gloss=Israel|Ref=JDG_12:14!14|MId=o070120140141|Strong=3478 19 שְׁמֹנֶ֥ה שְׁמֹנֶה NUM _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 20 nummod _ Gloss=eight|Ref=JDG_12:14!15|MId=o070120140151|Strong=8083|Type=cardinal_number 20 שָׁנִֽים שָׁנָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 16 obl _ Gloss=years|Ref=JDG_12:14!16|MId=o070120140161|Strong=8141|SpaceAfter=No 21 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 20 punct _ Ref=JDG_12:14!16 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יְהִי־ *it belonged* | wayyiqtol · qal | בָּנִים *sons* + בְּנֵי *sons* | | | | | רֹכְבִים *\[who\] rode* | participle active · qal | בָּנִים *sons* + בְּנֵי *sons* | | | | | יִּשְׁפֹּט *he judged* | wayyiqtol · qal | | יִשְׂרָאֵל *Israel* | | | 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} וַהֲוָה לֵיהּ אַרְבְּעִין בְּנִין וּתְלָתִין בְּנֵי בְנִין רְכִיבִין עַל שַׁבְעִין עַיְלִין וְדָן יַת יִשְׂרָאֵל תְּמַנְיָא שְׁנִין: 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 he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts; and he judged Israel eight years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.396/) **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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