--- title: Judges 20:16 — All this people, even seven hundred chosen men, were left-handed; ev… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: All this people, even seven hundred chosen men, were left-handed; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss. Who acts: people, one. Judges 20:16 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.20.16/) [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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/20/) / 20:16 # Judges 20:16 שֹׁפְטִים **Who acts:** people, one · **What happens:** choose, be, sling, not miss · **To what, where:** stones, hair breadth This is Judges 20:16 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 — people, one — and what happens in the verse to stones, hair breadth, 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. מִכֹּ֣ל ׀ הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֗ה שְׁבַ֤ע מֵאוֹת֙ אִ֣ישׁ בָּח֔וּר אִטֵּ֖ר יַד־יְמִינ֑וֹ כָּל־זֶ֗ה קֹלֵ֧עַ בָּאֶ֛בֶן אֶל־הַֽשַּׂעֲרָ֖ה וְלֹ֥א יַחֲטִֽא׃פ [All this people, even seven hundred chosen men, were left-handed; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.595/) ## 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:560 # text = מִכֹּ֣ל ׀ הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֗ה שְׁבַ֤ע מֵאוֹת֙ אִ֣ישׁ בָּח֔וּר אִטֵּ֖ר יַד־יְמִינ֑וֹ כָּל־זֶ֗ה קֹלֵ֧עַ בָּאֶ֛בֶן אֶל־הַֽשַּׂעֲרָ֖ה וְלֹ֥א יַחֲטִֽא׃פ # verse = JDG.20.16 1-2 מִכֹּ֣ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 2 case _ Gloss=[were].from|Ref=JDG_20:16!1|MId=o070200160011|Strong=4480 2 כֹּ֣ל כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=all|Ref=JDG_20:16!1|MId=o070200160012|Strong=3605 3 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 2 punct _ Ref=JDG_20:16!1 4-5 הָעָ֣ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 5 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=JDG_20:16!2|MId=o070200160021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 5 עָ֣ם עַם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 compound:smixut _ Gloss=people|Ref=JDG_20:16!2|MId=o070200160022|Strong=5971 6-7 הַזֶּ֗ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 7 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=JDG_20:16!3|MId=o070200160031|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 7 זֶּ֗ה זֶה DET _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ Gloss=this|Ref=JDG_20:16!3|MId=o070200160032|Strong=2088|Type=demonstrative 8 שְׁבַ֤ע שֶׁבַע NUM _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 10 nummod _ Gloss=seven|Ref=JDG_20:16!4|MId=o070200160041|Strong=7651|Type=cardinal_number 9 מֵאוֹת֙ מֵאָה NUM _ Number=Plur 8 flat _ Gloss=hundred(s)|Ref=JDG_20:16!5|MId=o070200160051|Strong=3967|Type=cardinal_number 10 אִ֣ישׁ אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Gloss=man|Ref=JDG_20:16!6|MId=o070200160061|Strong=0376 11 בָּח֔וּר בָּחַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 10 nmod _ Gloss=chosen|Ref=JDG_20:16!7|MId=o070200160071|Strong=0977|Frame=A1:070200160061;|Type=participle_passive 12 אִטֵּ֖ר אִטֵּר ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 amod _ Gloss=impeded|Ref=JDG_20:16!8|MId=o070200160081|Strong=0334|Type=adjective 13 יַד־ יָד NOUN _ Number=Sing 12 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.hand|Ref=JDG_20:16!9|MId=o070200160091|Strong=3027|SpaceAfter=No 14-15 יְמִינ֑וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 יְמִינ יָמִין NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 13 compound:smixut _ Gloss=his.right.side|Ref=JDG_20:16!10|MId=o070200160101|Strong=3225 15 ֑וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=JDG_20:16!10|MId=o070200160102|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 16 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Gloss=all|Ref=JDG_20:16!11|MId=o070200160111|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No 17 זֶ֗ה זֶה DET _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ Gloss=this|Ref=JDG_20:16!12|MId=o070200160121|Strong=2088|Type=demonstrative 18 קֹלֵ֧עַ קָלַע VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Gloss=[was].slinging|Ref=JDG_20:16!13|MId=o070200160131|Strong=7049|Frame=A0:070200160121;|Type=participle_active 19-21 בָּאֶ֛בֶן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 בָּ בְּ ADP _ _ 21 case _ Gloss=with|Ref=JDG_20:16!14|MId=o070200160141|Strong=0871a 20 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 21 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=JDG_20:16!14|MId=o070200160141ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 21 אֶ֛בֶן אֶבֶן NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 18 obl _ Gloss=stone|Ref=JDG_20:16!14|MId=o070200160142|Strong=0068 22 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 24 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=JDG_20:16!15|MId=o070200160151|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 23-24 הַֽשַּׂעֲרָ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 23 הַֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 24 det _ Gloss=the.single|Ref=JDG_20:16!16|MId=o070200160161|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 24 שַּׂעֲרָ֖ה שַׂעֲרָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 18 obl _ Gloss=hair|Ref=JDG_20:16!16|MId=o070200160162|Strong=8185 25-26 וְלֹ֥א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 25 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 27 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_20:16!17|MId=o070200160171|Strong=2050b 26 לֹ֥א לֹא ADV _ _ 27 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=JDG_20:16!17|MId=o070200160172|Strong=3808|Type=negative 27 יַחֲטִֽא חָטָא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.missed|Ref=JDG_20:16!18|MId=o070200160181|Strong=2398|Frame=A0:070200160061;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No 28 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 27 punct _ Ref=JDG_20:16!18|SpaceAfter=No 29 פ פ PUNCT _ _ 27 punct _ Ref=JDG_20:16!18 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | בָּחוּר *chosen* | participle passive · qal | | אִישׁ *man* | | | | קֹלֵעַ *\[was\] slinging* | participle active · qal | זֶה *this* | | | | | **not** יַחֲטִֽא *he missed* | yiqtol · hiphil | אִישׁ *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} מִכָּל עַמָא הָדֵין שְׁבַע מְאָה גְבַר עוּלֵים גַבְרָא גְמִיד בִּידֵיהּ דְיַמִינָא כָּל אִלֵין דְשָׁדָן אַבְנָא בְקִלְעָא וּמַרְמָן בְּבִינַת שַׂעֲרָא וְלָא מְשַׁנָן: 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. [All this people, even seven hundred chosen men, were left-handed; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.595/) **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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