--- title: Jeremiah 21:8 — And unto this people thou shalt say: Thus saith the LORD: Behold, I… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And unto this people thou shalt say: Thus saith the LORD: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death. Who acts: thou, LORD, I. Jeremiah 21:8 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.21.8/) [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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/21/) / 21:8 # Jeremiah 21:8 יִרְמְיָהוּ **Who acts:** thou, LORD, I · **What happens:** say, set · **To what, where:** way · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Jeremiah 21:8 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 — thou, LORD, I — and what happens in the verse to way, 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. וְאֶל־הָעָ֤ם הַזֶּה֙ תֹּאמַ֔ר כֹּ֖ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה הִנְנִ֤י נֹתֵן֙ לִפְנֵיכֶ֔ם אֶת־דֶּ֥רֶךְ הַחַיִּ֖ים וְאֶת־דֶּ֥רֶךְ הַמָּֽוֶת׃ [And unto this people thou shalt say: Thus saith the LORD: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.574/) ## 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:500 # text = וְאֶל־הָעָ֤ם הַזֶּה֙ תֹּאמַ֔ר כֹּ֖ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה הִנְנִ֤י נֹתֵן֙ לִפְנֵיכֶ֔ם אֶת־דֶּ֥רֶךְ הַחַיִּ֖ים וְאֶת־דֶּ֥רֶךְ הַמָּֽוֶת׃ # verse = JER.21.8 1-2 וְאֶל־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JER_21:8!1|MId=o240210080011|Strong=2050b 2 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=JER_21:8!1|MId=o240210080012|Strong=0413 3-4 הָעָ֤ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 4 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=JER_21:8!2|MId=o240210080021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 4 עָ֤ם עַם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 obl _ Gloss=people|Ref=JER_21:8!2|MId=o240210080022|Strong=5971 5-6 הַזֶּה֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 6 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=JER_21:8!3|MId=o240210080031|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 6 זֶּה֙ זֶה DET _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ Gloss=this|Ref=JER_21:8!3|MId=o240210080032|Strong=2088|Type=demonstrative 7 תֹּאמַ֔ר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 0 root _ Gloss=you.will.say|Ref=JER_21:8!4|MId=o240210080041|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:240210030021;|Type=yiqtol 8 כֹּ֖ה כֹּה ADV _ _ 9 advmod _ Gloss=thus|Ref=JER_21:8!5|MId=o240210080051|Strong=3541 9 אָמַ֣ר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 7 ccomp _ Gloss=he.says|Ref=JER_21:8!6|MId=o240210080061|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:240210080071;|Type=qatal 10 יְהוָ֑ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 9 nsubj _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=JER_21:8!7|MId=o240210080071|Strong=3068 11-12 הִנְנִ֤י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 הִנ הִנֵּה INTJ _ _ 13 nsubj _ Gloss=here|Ref=JER_21:8!8|MId=o240210080081|Strong=2009|Type=demonstrative 12 ְנִ֤י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ Gloss=I|Ref=JER_21:8!8|MId=o240210080082|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 13 נֹתֵן֙ נָתַן VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ Gloss=[am].setting|Ref=JER_21:8!9|MId=o240210080091|Strong=5414|Frame=A0:240210080082;A1:240210080121;240210080151;|Type=participle_active 14-16 לִפְנֵיכֶ֔ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=before|Ref=JER_21:8!10|MId=o240210080101|Strong=3807a 15 פְנֵי פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 13 obl _ Gloss=|Ref=JER_21:8!10|MId=o240210080102|Strong=6440 16 כֶ֔ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ Gloss=you|Ref=JER_21:8!10|MId=o240210080103|Strong=3641b|Type=pronominal 17 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=JER_21:8!11|MId=o240210080111|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 18 דֶּ֥רֶךְ דֶּרֶךְ NOUN _ Number=Sing 13 obj _ Gloss=the.way|Ref=JER_21:8!12|MId=o240210080121|Strong=1870 19-20 הַחַיִּ֖ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 20 det _ Gloss=of.(the)|Ref=JER_21:8!13|MId=o240210080131|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 20 חַיִּ֖ים חַיִּים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 18 compound:smixut _ Gloss=life|Ref=JER_21:8!13|MId=o240210080132|Strong=2416 21-22 וְאֶת־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 23 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JER_21:8!14|MId=o240210080141|Strong=2050b 22 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 23 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=JER_21:8!14|MId=o240210080142|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker 23 דֶּ֥רֶךְ דֶּרֶךְ NOUN _ Number=Sing 18 conj _ Gloss=the.way|Ref=JER_21:8!15|MId=o240210080151|Strong=1870 24-25 הַמָּֽוֶת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 24 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 25 det _ Gloss=of.(the)|Ref=JER_21:8!16|MId=o240210080161|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 25 מָּֽוֶת מָוֶת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 23 compound:smixut _ Gloss=death|Ref=JER_21:8!16|MId=o240210080162|Strong=4194 26 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 25 punct _ Ref=JER_21:8!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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | תֹּאמַר *you will say* | yiqtol · qal | | | | | | אָמַר *he says* | qatal · qal | יְהוָה *Yahweh* | | | | | נֹתֵן *\[am\] setting* | participle active · qal | ְנִי *I* | דֶּרֶךְ *the way* + דֶּרֶךְ *the way* | | | 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} וּלְעַמָא הָדֵין תֵּימַר כִּדְנַן אֲמַר יְיָ הָאֲנָא יָתִיב קָדְמֵיהוֹן יַת אוֹרַח חַיֵי וְיַת אוֹרַח מוֹתָא: 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 unto this people thou shalt say: Thus saith the LORD: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.574/) **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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