--- title: Judges 20:21 — And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day twenty and two thousand men. Who acts: children. Judges 20:21 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.20.21/) [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/) / 20:21 # Judges 20:21 שֹׁפְטִים **Who acts:** children · **What happens:** come, destroy down · **To what, where:** Gibeah, twenty men This is Judges 20:21 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 — children — and what happens in the verse to Gibeah, twenty men, 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. וַיֵּצְא֥וּ בְנֵֽי־בִנְיָמִ֖ן מִן־הַגִּבְעָ֑ה וַיַּשְׁחִ֨יתוּ בְיִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא שְׁנַ֨יִם וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים אֶ֛לֶף אִ֖ישׁ אָֽרְצָה׃ [And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day twenty and two thousand men.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.600/) ## 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:565 # text = וַיֵּצְא֥וּ בְנֵֽי־בִנְיָמִ֖ן מִן־הַגִּבְעָ֑ה וַיַּשְׁחִ֨יתוּ בְיִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא שְׁנַ֨יִם וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים אֶ֛לֶף אִ֖ישׁ אָֽרְצָה׃ # verse = JDG.20.21 1-2 וַיֵּצְא֥וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_20:21!1|MId=o070200210011|Strong=2050b 2 יֵּצְא֥וּ יָצָא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.went.out|Ref=JDG_20:21!1|MId=o070200210012|Strong=3318|Frame=A0:070200210021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 בְנֵֽי־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Gloss=the.descendants|Ref=JDG_20:21!2|MId=o070200210021|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 4 בִנְיָמִ֖ן בִּנְיָמִן PROPN _ _ 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Benjamin|Ref=JDG_20:21!3|MId=o070200210031|Strong=1144 5 מִן־ מִן ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=JDG_20:21!4|MId=o070200210041|Strong=4480|SpaceAfter=No 6-7 הַגִּבְעָ֑ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 7 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=JDG_20:21!5|MId=o070200210051|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 7 גִּבְעָ֑ה גִּבְעָה PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Gibeah|Ref=JDG_20:21!5|MId=o070200210052|Strong=1390 8-9 וַיַּשְׁחִ֨יתוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_20:21!6|MId=o070200210061|Strong=2050b 9 יַּשְׁחִ֨יתוּ שָׁחַת VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.destroyed|Ref=JDG_20:21!6|MId=o070200210062|Strong=7843|Frame=AA:070200210021;A0:070200210131;|Type=wayyiqtol 10-11 בְיִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 בְ בְּ ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=among|Ref=JDG_20:21!7|MId=o070200210071|Strong=0871a 11 יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 9 obl _ Gloss=Israel|Ref=JDG_20:21!7|MId=o070200210072|Strong=3478 12-14 בַּיּ֣וֹם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 בַּ בְּ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=JDG_20:21!8|MId=o070200210081|Strong=0871a 13 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 14 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=JDG_20:21!8|MId=o070200210081ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 14 יּ֣וֹם יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 obl _ Gloss=day|Ref=JDG_20:21!8|MId=o070200210082|Strong=3117 15-16 הַה֗וּא _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 16 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=JDG_20:21!9|MId=o070200210091|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 16 ה֗וּא הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 det _ Gloss=that|Ref=JDG_20:21!9|MId=o070200210092|Strong=1931|Type=personal 17 שְׁנַ֨יִם שְׁנַיִם NUM _ Gender=Masc|Number=Dual 21 nummod _ Gloss=two|Ref=JDG_20:21!10|MId=o070200210101|Strong=8147|Type=cardinal_number 18-19 וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_20:21!11|MId=o070200210111|Strong=2050b 19 עֶשְׂרִ֥ים עֶשְׂרִים NUM _ Number=Plur 17 conj _ Gloss=twenty|Ref=JDG_20:21!11|MId=o070200210112|Strong=6242|Type=cardinal_number 20 אֶ֛לֶף אֶלֶף NUM _ Number=Sing 17 flat _ Gloss=thousand|Ref=JDG_20:21!12|MId=o070200210121|Strong=0505|Type=cardinal_number 21 אִ֖ישׁ אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 obj _ Gloss=man|Ref=JDG_20:21!13|MId=o070200210131|Strong=0376 22-23 אָֽרְצָה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 אָֽרְצ אֶרֶץ NOUN _ Number=Sing 9 obl _ Gloss=ground|Ref=JDG_20:21!14|MId=o070200210141|Strong=0776 23 ָה ה X _ _ 22 nmod _ Gloss=to.[the]|Ref=JDG_20:21!14|MId=o070200210142|Strong=1886c|Type=directional_he 24 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 23 punct _ Ref=JDG_20:21!14 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֵּצְאוּ *they went out* | wayyiqtol · qal | בְנֵֽי־ *the descendants* | | | | | יַּשְׁחִיתוּ *they destroyed* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | אִישׁ *man* | | | בְנֵֽי־ *the descendants* | 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} וּנְפַקוּ בְנֵי בִנְיָמִין מִן גִבְעָתָא וְחַבִּילוּ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל בְּיוֹמָא הַהוּא עַסְרִין וּתְרֵין אַלְפִין גַבְרָא קְטִילִין רְמָן לְאַרְעָא: 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 the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day twenty and two thousand men.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.600/) **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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