--- title: Jeremiah 20:17 — Because He slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have be… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Because He slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. Who acts: LORD, mother, womb. Jeremiah 20:17 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/JER.20.17/) [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/) / [Jeremiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/) / [chapter 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/20/) / 20:17 # Jeremiah 20:17 יִרְמְיָהוּ **Who acts:** LORD, mother, womb · **What happens:** not slay, be · **To what, where:** me, womb, grave This is Jeremiah 20:17 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 — LORD, mother, womb — and what happens in the verse to me, womb, grave, 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 52 chapters of Jeremiah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־מוֹתְתַ֖נִי מֵרָ֑חֶם וַתְּהִי־לִ֤י אִמִּי֙ קִבְרִ֔י וְרַחְמָ֖הֿ הֲרַ֥ת עוֹלָֽם׃ [Because He slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.565/) ## 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:JER:491 # text = אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־מוֹתְתַ֖נִי מֵרָ֑חֶם וַתְּהִי־לִ֤י אִמִּי֙ קִבְרִ֔י וְרַחְמָ֖הֿ הֲרַ֥ת עוֹלָֽם׃ # verse = JER.20.17 1 אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 3 mark _ Gloss=that|Ref=JER_20:17!1|MId=o240200170011|Strong=0834|Type=relative 2 לֹא־ לֹא ADV _ _ 3 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=JER_20:17!2|MId=o240200170021|Strong=3808|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 3-4 מוֹתְתַ֖נִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 מוֹתְת מוּת VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=POLEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he|Ref=JER_20:17!3|MId=o240200170031|Strong=4191|Frame=A0:240200160022;A1:240200170032;|Type=qatal 4 ַ֖נִי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ Gloss=killed.me|Ref=JER_20:17!3|MId=o240200170032|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal 5-6 מֵרָ֑חֶם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 מֵ מִן ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=from.[the]|Ref=JER_20:17!4|MId=o240200170041|Strong=4480 6 רָ֑חֶם רֶחֶם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 obl _ Gloss=womb|Ref=JER_20:17!4|MId=o240200170042|Strong=7358 7-8 וַתְּהִי־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 13 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JER_20:17!5|MId=o240200170051|Strong=2050b 8 תְּהִי־ הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 13 cop _ Gloss=she.became|Ref=JER_20:17!5|MId=o240200170052|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:240200170071;|Type=wayyiqtol 9-10 לִ֤י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 ל לְ ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=JER_20:17!6|MId=o240200170061|Strong=3807a 10 ִ֤י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ Gloss=me|Ref=JER_20:17!6|MId=o240200170062|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 11-12 אִמִּי֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 אִמּ אֵם NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Gloss=mother|Ref=JER_20:17!7|MId=o240200170071|Strong=0517 12 ִי֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=JER_20:17!7|MId=o240200170072|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 13-14 קִבְרִ֔י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 קִבְר קֶבֶר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 conj _ Gloss=grave|Ref=JER_20:17!8|MId=o240200170081|Strong=6913 14 ִ֔י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=JER_20:17!8|MId=o240200170082|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 15-17 וְרַחְמָ֖הֿ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JER_20:17!9|MId=o240200170091|Strong=2050b 16 רַחְמ רֶחֶם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 conj _ Gloss=womb|Ref=JER_20:17!9|MId=o240200170092|Strong=7358 17 ָ֖הֿ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ Gloss=her|Ref=JER_20:17!9|MId=o240200170093|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 18 הֲרַ֥ת הָרָה ADJ _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 16 obj _ Gloss=[was].pregnant|Ref=JER_20:17!10|MId=o240200170101|Strong=2030|Type=adjective 19 עוֹלָֽם עוֹלָם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 obl _ Gloss=of.perpetuity|Ref=JER_20:17!11|MId=o240200170111|Strong=5769|SpaceAfter=No 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=JER_20:17!11 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **not** מוֹתְת *he* | qatal · polel | | ַנִי *killed me* | | | | תְּהִי־ *she became* | wayyiqtol · qal | אִמּ *mother* | | | | 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} לְוֵי דְלָא אֲמִיר עֲלֵי דְמֵיתֵית מִמְעִין וַהֲוָת לִי פּוֹן אִמִי קִבְרִי וַהֲוֵית כִּדְלָא הֲוֵית: 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. [Because He slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.565/) **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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