--- title: Judges 17:12 — And Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his pries… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. Who acts: Micah, young man. Judges 17:12 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.17.12/) [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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/17/) / 17:12 # Judges 17:12 שֹׁפְטִים **Who acts:** Micah, young man · **What happens:** consecrate, become, be · **To what, where:** Levite, priest, house This is Judges 17:12 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 — Micah, young man — and what happens in the verse to Levite, priest, house, 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. וַיְמַלֵּ֤א מִיכָה֙ אֶת־יַ֣ד הַלֵּוִ֔י וַיְהִי־ל֥וֹ הַנַּ֖עַר לְכֹהֵ֑ן וַיְהִ֖י בְּבֵ֥ית מִיכָֽה׃ [And Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.515/) ## 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:482 # text = וַיְמַלֵּ֤א מִיכָה֙ אֶת־יַ֣ד הַלֵּוִ֔י וַיְהִי־ל֥וֹ הַנַּ֖עַר לְכֹהֵ֑ן וַיְהִ֖י בְּבֵ֥ית מִיכָֽה׃ # verse = JDG.17.12 1-2 וַיְמַלֵּ֤א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_17:12!1|MId=o070170120011|Strong=2050b 2 יְמַלֵּ֤א מָלֵא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.filled|Ref=JDG_17:12!1|MId=o070170120012|Strong=4390|Frame=A0:070170120021;A1:070170120041;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 מִיכָה֙ מִיכָה PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Micah|Ref=JDG_17:12!2|MId=o070170120021|Strong=4318 4 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=JDG_17:12!3|MId=o070170120031|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 5 יַ֣ד יָד NOUN _ Number=Sing 2 obj _ Gloss=the.hand|Ref=JDG_17:12!4|MId=o070170120041|Strong=3027 6-7 הַלֵּוִ֔י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 7 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=JDG_17:12!5|MId=o070170120051|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 7 לֵּוִ֔י לֵוִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.Levite|Ref=JDG_17:12!5|MId=o070170120052|Strong=3881|Type=gentilic 8-9 וַיְהִי־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_17:12!6|MId=o070170120061|Strong=2050b 9 יְהִי־ הָיָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.became|Ref=JDG_17:12!6|MId=o070170120062|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:070170120082;|Type=wayyiqtol 10-11 ל֥וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 ל לְ ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=JDG_17:12!7|MId=o070170120071|Strong=3807a 11 ֥וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ Gloss=him|Ref=JDG_17:12!7|MId=o070170120072|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 12-13 הַנַּ֖עַר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 13 det _ Gloss=the.young|Ref=JDG_17:12!8|MId=o070170120081|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 13 נַּ֖עַר נַעַר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Gloss=man|Ref=JDG_17:12!8|MId=o070170120082|Strong=5288 14-15 לְכֹהֵ֑ן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=(into).a|Ref=JDG_17:12!9|MId=o070170120091|Strong=3807a 15 כֹהֵ֑ן כֹּהֵן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 obl _ Gloss=priest|Ref=JDG_17:12!9|MId=o070170120092|Strong=3548 16-17 וַיְהִ֖י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 17 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_17:12!10|MId=o070170120101|Strong=2050b 17 יְהִ֖י הָיָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.was|Ref=JDG_17:12!10|MId=o070170120102|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:070170120082;|Type=wayyiqtol 18-19 בְּבֵ֥ית _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=JDG_17:12!11|MId=o070170120111|Strong=0871a 19 בֵ֥ית בַּיִת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 17 obl _ Gloss=the.house|Ref=JDG_17:12!11|MId=o070170120112|Strong=1004 20 מִיכָֽה מִיכָה PROPN _ _ 19 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Micah|Ref=JDG_17:12!12|MId=o070170120121|Strong=4318|SpaceAfter=No 21 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 20 punct _ Ref=JDG_17:12!12 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יְמַלֵּא *he filled* | wayyiqtol · piel | מִיכָה *Micah* | יַד *the hand* | | | | יְהִי־ *he became* | wayyiqtol · qal | נַּעַר *man* | | | | | יְהִי *he was* | wayyiqtol · qal | נַּעַר *man* | | | | 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} וְקָרֵיב מִיכָה יַת קוּרְבַּן לֵיוָאָה וַהֲוָה לֵיהּ עוּלֵימָא לְכָהִין וַהֲוָה בְּבֵית מִיכָה: 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 Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.515/) **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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