--- title: Jeremiah 20:8 — For as often as I speak, I cry out, I cry: 'Violence and spoil'; bec… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: For as often as I speak, I cry out, I cry: 'Violence and spoil'; because the word of the LORD is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day. Who acts: I. Jeremiah 20:8 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.20.8/) [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/) / 20:8 # Jeremiah 20:8 יִרְמְיָהוּ **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** speak, cry out, cry, make, word · **To what, where:** word, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Jeremiah 20:8 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 — I — and what happens in the verse to word, LORD, 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. כִּֽי־מִדֵּ֤י אֲדַבֵּר֙ אֶזְעָ֔ק חָמָ֥ס וָשֹׁ֖ד אֶקְרָ֑א כִּֽי־הָיָ֨ה דְבַר־יְהוָ֥ה לִ֛י לְחֶרְפָּ֥ה וּלְקֶ֖לֶס כָּל־הַיּֽוֹם׃ [For as often as I speak, I cry out, I cry: 'Violence and spoil'; because the word of the LORD is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.556/) ## 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:482 # text = כִּֽי־מִדֵּ֤י אֲדַבֵּר֙ אֶזְעָ֔ק חָמָ֥ס וָשֹׁ֖ד אֶקְרָ֑א כִּֽי־הָיָ֨ה דְבַר־יְהוָ֥ה לִ֛י לְחֶרְפָּ֥ה וּלְקֶ֖לֶס כָּל־הַיּֽוֹם׃ # verse = JER.20.8 1 כִּֽי־ כִּי SCONJ _ _ 5 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=JER_20:8!1|MId=o240200080011|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No 2-3 מִדֵּ֤י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 3 case _ Gloss=as|Ref=JER_20:8!2|MId=o240200080021|Strong=4480 3 דֵּ֤י דַּי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 obl _ Gloss=often.as|Ref=JER_20:8!2|MId=o240200080022|Strong=1767 4 אֲדַבֵּר֙ דָבַר VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=1 3 acl _ Gloss=I.speak|Ref=JER_20:8!3|MId=o240200080031|Strong=1696|Frame=A0:240200030111;|Type=yiqtol 5 אֶזְעָ֔ק זָעַק VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 0 root _ Gloss=I.cry.out|Ref=JER_20:8!4|MId=o240200080041|Strong=2199|Frame=A0:240200030111;|Type=yiqtol 6 חָמָ֥ס חָמָס NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ Gloss=violence|Ref=JER_20:8!5|MId=o240200080051|Strong=2555 7-8 וָשֹׁ֖ד _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וָ וְ CCONJ _ _ 8 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JER_20:8!6|MId=o240200080061|Strong=2050b 8 שֹׁ֖ד שֹׁד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 conj _ Gloss=havoc|Ref=JER_20:8!6|MId=o240200080062|Strong=7701 9 אֶקְרָ֑א קָרָא VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 5 parataxis _ Gloss=I.proclaim|Ref=JER_20:8!7|MId=o240200080071|Strong=7121|Frame=A0:240200030111;A1:240200080051;240200080062;|Type=yiqtol 10 כִּֽי־ כִּי SCONJ _ _ 17 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=JER_20:8!8|MId=o240200080081|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No 11 הָיָ֨ה הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 17 cop _ Gloss=it.has.become|Ref=JER_20:8!9|MId=o240200080091|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:240200080101;|Type=qatal 12 דְבַר־ דָּבָר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Gloss=the.word|Ref=JER_20:8!10|MId=o240200080101|Strong=1697|SpaceAfter=No 13 יְהוָ֥ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 12 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=JER_20:8!11|MId=o240200080111|Strong=3068 14-15 לִ֛י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 ל לְ ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=JER_20:8!12|MId=o240200080121|Strong=3807a 15 ִ֛י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ Gloss=me|Ref=JER_20:8!12|MId=o240200080122|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 16-17 לְחֶרְפָּ֥ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=(into).a|Ref=JER_20:8!13|MId=o240200080131|Strong=3807a 17 חֶרְפָּ֥ה חֶרְפָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 5 advcl _ Gloss=reproach|Ref=JER_20:8!13|MId=o240200080132|Strong=2781 18-20 וּלְקֶ֖לֶס _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 20 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JER_20:8!14|MId=o240200080141|Strong=2050b 19 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=(into)|Ref=JER_20:8!14|MId=o240200080142|Strong=3807a 20 קֶ֖לֶס קֶלֶס NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 17 conj _ Gloss=derision|Ref=JER_20:8!14|MId=o240200080143|Strong=7047 21 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 17 obl _ Gloss=all|Ref=JER_20:8!15|MId=o240200080151|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No 22-23 הַיּֽוֹם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 23 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=JER_20:8!16|MId=o240200080161|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 23 יּֽוֹם יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 21 compound:smixut _ Gloss=day|Ref=JER_20:8!16|MId=o240200080162|Strong=3117 24 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 23 punct _ Ref=JER_20:8!16 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · assert · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | אֲדַבֵּר *I speak* | yiqtol · piel | | | | | | אֶזְעָק *I cry out* | yiqtol · qal | | | | | | אֶקְרָא *I proclaim* | yiqtol · qal | | חָמָס *violence* + שֹׁד *havoc* | | | | הָיָה *it has become* | qatal · qal | דְבַר־ *the word* | | | | 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} אֲרֵי בִזְמַן דַאֲנָא מִתְנַבֵּי אֲנָא מֵרִים קָלִי בָּכֵי וּמְצַוַח וְעַל חָטוֹפִין וּבָזוֹזִין אֲנָא מִתְנַבֵּי אֲרֵי הֲוָה פִּתְגָמָא דַייָ לִי לְחִסוּדִין וּלְלַעַג כָּל יוֹמָא: 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. [For as often as I speak, I cry out, I cry: 'Violence and spoil'; because the word of the LORD is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.556/) **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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