--- title: Judges 20:27 — And the children of Israel asked of the LORD — for the ark of the co… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And the children of Israel asked of the LORD — for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days, Who acts: children, ark, God. Judges 20:27 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.20.27/) [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/) / 20:27 # Judges 20:27 שֹׁפְטִים **Who acts:** children, ark, God · **What happens:** ask, be, covenant This is Judges 20:27 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, ark, God — and what happens in the verse, 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. וַיִּשְׁאֲל֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בַּֽיהוָ֑ה וְשָׁ֗ם אֲרוֹן֙ בְּרִ֣ית הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים בַּיָּמִ֖ים הָהֵֽם׃ [And the children of Israel asked of the LORD — for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.606/) ## 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:571 # text = וַיִּשְׁאֲל֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בַּֽיהוָ֑ה וְשָׁ֗ם אֲרוֹן֙ בְּרִ֣ית הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים בַּיָּמִ֖ים הָהֵֽם׃ # verse = JDG.20.27 1-2 וַיִּשְׁאֲל֥וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_20:27!1|MId=o070200270011|Strong=2050b 2 יִּשְׁאֲל֥וּ שָׁאַל VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.enquired|Ref=JDG_20:27!1|MId=o070200270012|Strong=7592|Frame=A0:070200270021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 בְנֵֽי־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Gloss=the.people|Ref=JDG_20:27!2|MId=o070200270021|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 4 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Israel|Ref=JDG_20:27!3|MId=o070200270031|Strong=3478 5-6 בַּֽיהוָ֑ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 בַּֽ בְּ ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=by|Ref=JDG_20:27!4|MId=o070200270041|Strong=0871a 6 יהוָ֑ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=JDG_20:27!4|MId=o070200270042|Strong=3068 7-8 וְשָׁ֗ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 8 cc _ Gloss=and.[was]|Ref=JDG_20:27!5|MId=o070200270051|Strong=2050b 8 שָׁ֗ם שָׁם ADV _ _ 2 conj _ Gloss=there|Ref=JDG_20:27!5|MId=o070200270052|Strong=8033 9 אֲרוֹן֙ אֲרוֹן NOUN _ Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Gloss=the.ark|Ref=JDG_20:27!6|MId=o070200270061|Strong=0727 10 בְּרִ֣ית בְּרִית NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.the.covenant|Ref=JDG_20:27!7|MId=o070200270071|Strong=1285 11-12 הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 12 det _ Gloss=of.(the)|Ref=JDG_20:27!8|MId=o070200270081|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 12 אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 10 compound:smixut _ Gloss=God|Ref=JDG_20:27!8|MId=o070200270082|Strong=0430 13-15 בַּיָּמִ֖ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 בַּ בְּ ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=JDG_20:27!9|MId=o070200270091|Strong=0871a 14 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 15 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=JDG_20:27!9|MId=o070200270091ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 15 יָּמִ֖ים יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 8 obl _ Gloss=days|Ref=JDG_20:27!9|MId=o070200270092|Strong=3117 16-17 הָהֵֽם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 17 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=JDG_20:27!10|MId=o070200270101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 17 הֵֽם הֵם PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 det _ Gloss=those|Ref=JDG_20:27!10|MId=o070200270102|Strong=1992|Type=personal 18 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 17 punct _ Ref=JDG_20:27!10 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִּשְׁאֲלוּ *they enquired* | wayyiqtol · qal | בְנֵֽי־ *the people* | | | | 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} וּשְׁאִילוּ בְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּמֵימְרָא דַייָ וְתַמָן אֲרוֹן קְיָמָא דַייָ בְּיוֹמַיָא הָאִנוּן: 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 Israel asked of the LORD — for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.606/) **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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