--- title: Judges 9:25 — And the men of Shechem set liers-in-wait for him on the tops of the… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And the men of Shechem set liers-in-wait for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them; and it was told Abimelech. Who acts: men. Judges 9:25 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.9.25/) [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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG/9/) / 9:25 # Judges 9:25 שֹׁפְטִים **Who acts:** men · **What happens:** set, rob, come, tell · **To what, where:** liers, wait, all, way, violence, Abimelech · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Judges 9:25 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 — men — and what happens in the verse to liers, wait, all, way, violence, Abimelech, 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. וַיָּשִׂ֣ימוּ לוֹ֩ בַעֲלֵ֨י שְׁכֶ֜ם מְאָרְבִ֗ים עַ֚ל רָאשֵׁ֣י הֶהָרִ֔ים וַיִּגְזְל֗וּ אֵ֛ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁר־יַעֲבֹ֥ר עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם בַּדָּ֑רֶךְ וַיֻּגַּ֖ד לַאֲבִימֶֽלֶךְ׃פ [And the men of Shechem set liers-in-wait for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them; and it was told Abimelech.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.285/) ## 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:269 # text = וַיָּשִׂ֣ימוּ לוֹ֩ בַעֲלֵ֨י שְׁכֶ֜ם מְאָרְבִ֗ים עַ֚ל רָאשֵׁ֣י הֶהָרִ֔ים וַיִּגְזְל֗וּ אֵ֛ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁר־יַעֲבֹ֥ר עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם בַּדָּ֑רֶךְ וַיֻּגַּ֖ד לַאֲבִימֶֽלֶךְ׃פ # verse = JDG.9.25 1-2 וַיָּשִׂ֣ימוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_9:25!1|MId=o070090250011|Strong=2050b 2 יָּשִׂ֣ימוּ שׂים VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.set|Ref=JDG_9:25!1|MId=o070090250012|Strong=7760|Frame=A0:070090250031;A1:070090250051;|Type=wayyiqtol 3-4 לוֹ֩ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 ל לְ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=JDG_9:25!2|MId=o070090250021|Strong=3807a 4 וֹ֩ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ Gloss=him|Ref=JDG_9:25!2|MId=o070090250022|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 5 בַעֲלֵ֨י בַּעַל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Gloss=the.citizens|Ref=JDG_9:25!3|MId=o070090250031|Strong=1167 6 שְׁכֶ֜ם שְׁכֶם PROPN _ _ 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Shechem|Ref=JDG_9:25!4|MId=o070090250041|Strong=7927a 7 מְאָרְבִ֗ים אָרַב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur 2 obj _ Gloss=ambushers|Ref=JDG_9:25!5|MId=o070090250051|Strong=0693|Type=participle_active 8 עַ֚ל עַל ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=JDG_9:25!6|MId=o070090250061|Strong=5921 9 רָאשֵׁ֣י רֹאשׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 obl _ Gloss=the.tops|Ref=JDG_9:25!7|MId=o070090250071|Strong=7218 10-11 הֶהָרִ֔ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 הֶ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 11 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=JDG_9:25!8|MId=o070090250081|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 11 הָרִ֔ים הַר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.mountains|Ref=JDG_9:25!8|MId=o070090250082|Strong=2022 12-13 וַיִּגְזְל֗וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 13 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_9:25!9|MId=o070090250091|Strong=2050b 13 יִּגְזְל֗וּ גָּזַל VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.robbed|Ref=JDG_9:25!9|MId=o070090250092|Strong=1497|Frame=A0:070090250051;A1:070090250111;|Type=wayyiqtol 14 אֵ֛ת אֵת ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=JDG_9:25!10|MId=o070090250101|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker 15 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 obj _ Gloss=every|Ref=JDG_9:25!11|MId=o070090250111|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No 16 אֲשֶׁר־ אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 17 mark _ Gloss=[one].who|Ref=JDG_9:25!12|MId=o070090250121|Strong=0834|Type=relative|SpaceAfter=No 17 יַעֲבֹ֥ר עָבַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 15 acl:relcl _ Gloss=he.passed.by|Ref=JDG_9:25!13|MId=o070090250131|Strong=5674|Frame=A0:070090250111;|Type=yiqtol 18-19 עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 עֲלֵי עַל ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=JDG_9:25!14|MId=o070090250141|Strong=5921 19 הֶ֖ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ Gloss=them|Ref=JDG_9:25!14|MId=o070090250142|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 20-22 בַּדָּ֑רֶךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 בַּ בְּ ADP _ _ 22 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=JDG_9:25!15|MId=o070090250151|Strong=0871a 21 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 22 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=JDG_9:25!15|MId=o070090250151ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 22 דָּ֑רֶךְ דֶּרֶךְ NOUN _ Number=Sing 17 obl _ Gloss=road|Ref=JDG_9:25!15|MId=o070090250152|Strong=1870 23-24 וַיֻּגַּ֖ד _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 23 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 24 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JDG_9:25!16|MId=o070090250161|Strong=2050b 24 יֻּגַּ֖ד נָגַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HOPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=it.was.told|Ref=JDG_9:25!16|MId=o070090250162|Strong=5046|Frame=A1:070090250012;070090250092;|Type=wayyiqtol 25-26 לַאֲבִימֶֽלֶךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 25 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 26 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=JDG_9:25!17|MId=o070090250171|Strong=3807a 26 אֲבִימֶֽלֶךְ אֲבִימֶלֶךְ PROPN _ _ 24 obl _ Gloss=Abimelech|Ref=JDG_9:25!17|MId=o070090250172|Strong=0040 27 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 26 punct _ Ref=JDG_9:25!17|SpaceAfter=No 28 פ פ PUNCT _ _ 26 punct _ Ref=JDG_9:25!17 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יָּשִׂימוּ *they set* | wayyiqtol · qal | בַעֲלֵי *the citizens* | מְאָרְבִים *ambushers* | | | | יִּגְזְלוּ *they robbed* | wayyiqtol · qal | מְאָרְבִים *ambushers* | כָּל־ *every* | | | | יַעֲבֹר *he passed by* | yiqtol · qal | כָּל־ *every* | | | | | יֻּגַּד *it was told* | wayyiqtol · hophal | | יָּשִׂימוּ *they set* + יִּגְזְלוּ *they robbed* | | | 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} וְשַׁוִיאוּ לֵיהּ יַתְבֵי שְׁכֶם כְּמַנִין עַל רֵישֵׁי טוּרַיָא וְאַנְסִין יַת כָּל דִי עֲבַר עֲלֵיהוֹן בְּאוֹרְחָא וְאִתְחַוָא לַאֲבִימֶלֶךְ: 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 men of Shechem set liers-in-wait for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them; and it was told Abimelech.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.285/) **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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