--- title: Jeremiah 38:8 — Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the kin… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying: Who acts: Ebed melech. Jeremiah 38:8 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.38.8/) [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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/38/) / 38:8 # Jeremiah 38:8 יִרְמְיָהוּ **Who acts:** Ebed melech · **What happens:** go, speak, say · **To what, where:** house · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Jeremiah 38:8 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 — Ebed melech — and what happens in the verse to house, 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. וַיֵּצֵ֥א עֶֽבֶד־מֶ֖לֶךְעֶֽבֶד־מֶ֖לֶךְ מִבֵּ֣ית הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר אֶל־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ לֵאמֹֽר׃ [Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1051/) ## 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:955 # text = וַיֵּצֵ֥א עֶֽבֶד־מֶ֖לֶךְעֶֽבֶד־מֶ֖לֶךְ מִבֵּ֣ית הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר אֶל־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ לֵאמֹֽר׃ # verse = JER.38.8 1-2 וַיֵּצֵ֥א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JER_38:8!1|MId=o240380080011|Strong=2050b 2 יֵּצֵ֥א יָצָא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.went.out|Ref=JER_38:8!1|MId=o240380080012|Strong=3318|Frame=A0:240380080021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3-4 עֶֽבֶד־מֶ֖לֶךְעֶֽבֶד־מֶ֖לֶךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 עֶֽבֶד־מֶ֖לֶךְ עֶבֶד־מֶלֶךְ PROPN _ _ 2 dep _ Gloss=Ebed|Ref=JER_38:8!2|MId=o240380080021 4 עֶֽבֶד־מֶ֖לֶךְ עֶבֶד־מֶלֶךְ PROPN _ _ 2 dep _ Gloss=Melech|Ref=JER_38:8!3|MId=o240380080031 5-6 מִבֵּ֣ית _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=JER_38:8!4|MId=o240380080041|Strong=4480 6 בֵּ֣ית בַּיִת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 obl _ Gloss=the.house|Ref=JER_38:8!4|MId=o240380080042|Strong=1004 7-8 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 8 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=JER_38:8!5|MId=o240380080051|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 8 מֶּ֑לֶךְ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.king|Ref=JER_38:8!5|MId=o240380080052|Strong=4428 9-10 וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JER_38:8!6|MId=o240380080061|Strong=2050b 10 יְדַבֵּ֥ר דָבַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.spoke|Ref=JER_38:8!6|MId=o240380080062|Strong=1696|Frame=A0:240380080021;|Type=wayyiqtol 11 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=JER_38:8!7|MId=o240380080071|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 12-13 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 13 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=JER_38:8!8|MId=o240380080081|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 13 מֶּ֖לֶךְ מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 obl _ Gloss=king|Ref=JER_38:8!8|MId=o240380080082|Strong=4428 14-15 לֵאמֹֽר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 לֵ לְ ADP _ ExtPos=SCONJ 10 ccomp _ Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=JER_38:8!9|MId=o240380080091|Strong=3807a 15 אמֹֽר אָמַר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 14 fixed _ Gloss=|Ref=JER_38:8!9|MId=o240380080092|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:240380080021;|Type=infinitive_construct 16 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 14 punct _ Ref=JER_38:8!9 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: a frame; the quote follows - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֵּצֵא *he went out* | wayyiqtol · qal | עֶֽבֶד־מֶלֶךְ *Ebed* | | | | | יְדַבֵּר *he spoke* | wayyiqtol · piel | עֶֽבֶד־מֶלֶךְ *Ebed* | | | | | אמֹֽר | infinitive construct · qal | עֶֽבֶד־מֶלֶךְ *Ebed* | | | | 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} וּנְפֵק עַבְדָא דְמַלְכָּא מִבֵּית מַלְכָּא וּמַלֵיל עִם מַלְכָּא לְמֵימָר: 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. [Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1051/) **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). Hebrew sentence `wlc:JER:955`. - ← previous: [Jeremiah 38:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.7/) - next →: [Jeremiah 38:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.9/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/38/)