--- title: Jeremiah 7:18 — The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the w… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke Me. Who acts: children, fathers, women. Jeremiah 7:18 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jona --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.7.18/) [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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/7/) / 7:18 # Jeremiah 7:18 יִרְמְיָהוּ **Who acts:** children, fathers, women · **What happens:** gather, kindle, knead, make, pour out, provoke · **To what, where:** wood, fire, dough, cakes, drink offerings, Me This is Jeremiah 7:18 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 — children, fathers, women — and what happens in the verse to wood, fire, dough, cakes, drink offerings, Me, 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. הַבָּנִ֞ים מְלַקְּטִ֣ים עֵצִ֗ים וְהָֽאָבוֹת֙ מְבַעֲרִ֣ים אֶת־הָאֵ֔שׁ וְהַנָּשִׁ֖ים לָשׁ֣וֹת בָּצֵ֑ק לַעֲשׂ֨וֹת כַּוָּנִ֜ים לִמְלֶ֣כֶת הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם וְהַסֵּ֤ךְ נְסָכִים֙ לֵאלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֔ים לְמַ֖עַן הַכְעִסֵֽנִי׃ [The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke Me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.220/) ## 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:190 # text = הַבָּנִ֞ים מְלַקְּטִ֣ים עֵצִ֗ים וְהָֽאָבוֹת֙ מְבַעֲרִ֣ים אֶת־הָאֵ֔שׁ וְהַנָּשִׁ֖ים לָשׁ֣וֹת בָּצֵ֑ק לַעֲשׂ֨וֹת כַּוָּנִ֜ים לִמְלֶ֣כֶת הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם וְהַסֵּ֤ךְ נְסָכִים֙ לֵאלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֔ים לְמַ֖עַן הַכְעִסֵֽנִי׃ # verse = JER.7.18 1-2 הַבָּנִ֞ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 2 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=JER_7:18!1|MId=o240070180011|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 2 בָּנִ֞ים בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Gloss=children|Ref=JER_7:18!1|MId=o240070180012|Strong=1121 3 מְלַקְּטִ֣ים לָקַט VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur 0 root _ Gloss=[are].gathering|Ref=JER_7:18!2|MId=o240070180021|Strong=3950|Frame=A0:240070180012;A1:240070180031;|Type=participle_active 4 עֵצִ֗ים עֵץ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 3 obj _ Gloss=wood(s)|Ref=JER_7:18!3|MId=o240070180031|Strong=6086 5-7 וְהָֽאָבוֹת֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 8 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JER_7:18!4|MId=o240070180041|Strong=2050b 6 הָֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 7 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=JER_7:18!4|MId=o240070180042|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 7 אָבוֹת֙ אָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ Gloss=fathers|Ref=JER_7:18!4|MId=o240070180043|Strong=0001 8 מְבַעֲרִ֣ים בָּעַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur 3 conj _ Gloss=[are].kindling|Ref=JER_7:18!5|MId=o240070180051|Strong=1197|Frame=A0:240070180043;A1:240070180072;|Type=participle_active 9 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=JER_7:18!6|MId=o240070180061|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 10-11 הָאֵ֔שׁ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 11 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=JER_7:18!7|MId=o240070180071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 11 אֵ֔שׁ אֵשׁ NOUN _ Number=Sing 8 obj _ Gloss=fire|Ref=JER_7:18!7|MId=o240070180072|Strong=0784 12-14 וְהַנָּשִׁ֖ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 15 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JER_7:18!8|MId=o240070180081|Strong=2050b 13 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 14 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=JER_7:18!8|MId=o240070180082|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 14 נָּשִׁ֖ים אִשָּׁה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ Gloss=women|Ref=JER_7:18!8|MId=o240070180083|Strong=0802 15 לָשׁ֣וֹת לוּשׁ VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 3 conj _ Gloss=[are].kneading|Ref=JER_7:18!9|MId=o240070180091|Strong=3888|Frame=A0:240070180083;A1:240070180101;|Type=participle_active 16 בָּצֵ֑ק בָּצֵק NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 obj _ Gloss=dough|Ref=JER_7:18!10|MId=o240070180101|Strong=1217 17-18 לַעֲשׂ֨וֹת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=JER_7:18!11|MId=o240070180111|Strong=3807a 18 עֲשׂ֨וֹת עָשָׂה VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 15 advcl _ Gloss=make|Ref=JER_7:18!11|MId=o240070180112|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:240070180083;A1:240070180121;|Type=infinitive_construct 19 כַּוָּנִ֜ים כַּוָּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 18 obj _ Gloss=cakes|Ref=JER_7:18!12|MId=o240070180121|Strong=3561 20-21 לִמְלֶ֣כֶת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 21 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=JER_7:18!13|MId=o240070180131|Strong=3807a 21 מְלֶ֣כֶת מְלֶכֶת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 18 obl _ Gloss=the.queen|Ref=JER_7:18!13|MId=o240070180132|Strong=4446 22-23 הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 23 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=JER_7:18!14|MId=o240070180141|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 23 שָּׁמַ֗יִם שָׁמַיִם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 21 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.heavens|Ref=JER_7:18!14|MId=o240070180142|Strong=8064 24-25 וְהַסֵּ֤ךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 24 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 25 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=JER_7:18!15|MId=o240070180151|Strong=2050b 25 הַסֵּ֤ךְ נָסַךְ VERB _ HebBinyan=HIPHIL 3 conj _ Gloss=they.are.pouring.out|Ref=JER_7:18!15|MId=o240070180152|Strong=5258|Frame=AA:240070180012;240070180043;240070180083;A0:240070180161;|Type=infinitive_absolute 26 נְסָכִים֙ נֶסֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 25 obj _ Gloss=drink.offerings|Ref=JER_7:18!16|MId=o240070180161|Strong=5262 27-28 לֵאלֹהִ֣ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 27 לֵ לְ ADP _ _ 28 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=JER_7:18!17|MId=o240070180171|Strong=3807a 28 אלֹהִ֣ים אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 25 obl _ Gloss=gods|Ref=JER_7:18!17|MId=o240070180172|Strong=0430 29 אֲחֵרִ֔ים אַחֵר ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 28 amod _ Gloss=other|Ref=JER_7:18!18|MId=o240070180181|Strong=0312|Type=adjective 30 לְמַ֖עַן לְמַעַן SCONJ _ _ 31 mark _ Gloss=so.as|Ref=JER_7:18!19|MId=o240070180191|Strong=4616 31-32 הַכְעִסֵֽנִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 31 הַכְעִס כָּעַס VERB _ HebBinyan=HIPHIL 25 advcl _ Gloss=to|Ref=JER_7:18!20|MId=o240070180201|Strong=3707|Frame=AA:240070180012;240070180043;240070180083;A0:240070180202;|Type=infinitive_construct 32 ֵֽנִי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ Gloss=provoke.me.to.anger|Ref=JER_7:18!20|MId=o240070180202|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal 33 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 32 punct _ Ref=JER_7:18!20 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | מְלַקְּטִים *\[are\] gathering* | participle active · piel | בָּנִים *children* | עֵצִים *wood(s)* | | | | מְבַעֲרִים *\[are\] kindling* | participle active · piel | אָבוֹת *fathers* | אֵשׁ *fire* | | | | לָשׁוֹת *\[are\] kneading* | participle active · qal | נָּשִׁים *women* | בָּצֵק *dough* | | | | עֲשׂוֹת *make* | infinitive construct · qal | נָּשִׁים *women* | כַּוָּנִים *cakes* | | | | הַסֵּךְ *they are pouring out* | infinitive absolute · hiphil | נְסָכִים *drink offerings* | | | בָּנִים *children* + אָבוֹת *fathers* + נָּשִׁים *women* | | הַכְעִס *to* | infinitive construct · hiphil | ֵֽנִי *provoke me to anger* | | | בָּנִים *children* + אָבוֹת *fathers* + נָּשִׁים *women* | 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} בְּנַיָא מְלַקְטִין אָעָא וְאַבְהָתָא מַדְלְקִין יַת נוּרָא וּנְשַׁיָא לִישָׁן לִישָׁא לְמֶעְבַּד כַּרְדוֹטִין לְכוֹכְבַת שְׁמַיָא וּלְנַסְכָא נַסְכִין לְפַלְחֵי כּוֹכְבַיָא בְּדִיל לְאַרְגַזָא קֳדָמַי: 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. [The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke Me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.220/) **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:190`. - ← previous: [Jeremiah 7:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.7.17/) - next →: [Jeremiah 7:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.7.19/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/7/)