--- title: Judges 16:8 — Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bows… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. Who acts: lords, strength. Judges 16:8 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.16.8/) [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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/16/) / 16:8 # Judges 16:8 שֹׁפְטִים **Who acts:** lords, strength · **What happens:** bring up, not dry, bind · **To what, where:** seven fresh bowstrings, man This is Judges 16:8 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 — lords, strength — and what happens in the verse to seven fresh bowstrings, man, 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. וַיַּעֲלוּ־לָ֞הּ סַרְנֵ֣י פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים שִׁבְעָ֛ה יְתָרִ֥ים לַחִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־חֹרָ֑בוּ וַתַּאַסְרֵ֖הוּ בָּהֶֽם׃ [Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.475/) ## 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:447 # text = וַיַּעֲלוּ־לָ֞הּ סַרְנֵ֣י פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים שִׁבְעָ֛ה יְתָרִ֥ים לַחִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־חֹרָ֑בוּ וַתַּאַסְרֵ֖הוּ בָּהֶֽם׃ # verse = JDG.16.8 1-2 וַיַּעֲלוּ־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_16:8!1|MId=o070160080011|Strong=2050b 2 יַּעֲלוּ־ עָלָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.brought.up|Ref=JDG_16:8!1|MId=o070160080012|Strong=5927|Frame=AA:070160080031;A0:070160080061;|Type=wayyiqtol 3-4 לָ֞הּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 ל לְ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=JDG_16:8!2|MId=o070160080021|Strong=3807a 4 ָ֞הּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ Gloss=her|Ref=JDG_16:8!2|MId=o070160080022|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 5 סַרְנֵ֣י סֶרֶן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Gloss=the.rulers|Ref=JDG_16:8!3|MId=o070160080031|Strong=5633 6 פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים פְּלִשְׁתִּי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.[the].Philistines|Ref=JDG_16:8!4|MId=o070160080041|Strong=6430|Type=gentilic 7 שִׁבְעָ֛ה שֶׁבַע NUM _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 nummod _ Gloss=seven|Ref=JDG_16:8!5|MId=o070160080051|Strong=7651|Type=cardinal_number 8 יְתָרִ֥ים יֶתֶר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 obj _ Gloss=cords|Ref=JDG_16:8!6|MId=o070160080061|Strong=3499a 9 לַחִ֖ים לַח ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 8 amod _ Gloss=fresh|Ref=JDG_16:8!7|MId=o070160080071|Strong=3892|Type=adjective 10 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 12 mark _ Gloss=which|Ref=JDG_16:8!8|MId=o070160080081|Strong=0834|Type=relative 11 לֹא־ לֹא ADV _ _ 12 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=JDG_16:8!9|MId=o070160080091|Strong=3808|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 12 חֹרָ֑בוּ חָרֵב VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=PUAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 8 acl:relcl _ Gloss=they.had.been.dried|Ref=JDG_16:8!10|MId=o070160080101|Strong=2717|Frame=A1:070160080061;|Type=qatal 13-15 וַתַּאַסְרֵ֖הוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_16:8!11|MId=o070160080111|Strong=2050b 14 תַּאַסְר אָסַר VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=she|Ref=JDG_16:8!11|MId=o070160080112|Strong=0631|Frame=A0:070160060021;A1:070160080113;|Type=wayyiqtol 15 ֵ֖הוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ Gloss=bound.him|Ref=JDG_16:8!11|MId=o070160080113|Strong=1930a|Type=pronominal 16-17 בָּהֶֽם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 בּ בְּ ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=with|Ref=JDG_16:8!12|MId=o070160080121|Strong=0871a 17 ָהֶֽם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ Gloss=them|Ref=JDG_16:8!12|MId=o070160080122|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 18 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 17 punct _ Ref=JDG_16:8!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יַּעֲלוּ־ *they brought up* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | יְתָרִים *cords* | | | סַרְנֵי *the rulers* | | **not** חֹרָבוּ *they had been dried* | qatal · pual | | יְתָרִים *cords* | | | | תַּאַסְר *she* | wayyiqtol · qal | | ֵהוּ *bound him* | | | 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} וְאַסִיקוּ לָהּ טוּרְנֵי פְּלִשְׁתָּאֵי שַׁבְעָא יְתָרִין רְטִיבִין דְלָא יַבִּישׁוּ וַאֲסַרְתֵּיהּ 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. [Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.475/) **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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