--- title: Micah 6:8 — It hath been told thee, O man, what is good, and what the LORD doth… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: It hath been told thee, O man, what is good, and what the LORD doth require of thee: only to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God. Who acts: LORD. Micah 6:8 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/MIC.6.8/) [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/) / [Micah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC/) / [chapter 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC/6/) / 6:8 # Micah 6:8 מִיכָה **Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** tell, be, require, do, love, walk · **To what, where:** born, thee, mercy · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Micah 6:8 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 — LORD — and what happens in the verse to born, thee, mercy, 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 7 chapters of Micah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. הִגִּ֥יד לְךָ֛ אָדָ֖ם מַה־טּ֑וֹב וּמָֽה־יְהוָ֞ה דּוֹרֵ֣שׁ מִמְּךָ֗ כִּ֣י אִם־עֲשׂ֤וֹת מִשְׁפָּט֙ וְאַ֣הֲבַת חֶ֔סֶד וְהַצְנֵ֥עַ לֶ֖כֶת עִם־אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃פ [It hath been told thee, O man, what is good, and what the LORD doth require of thee: only to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.89/) ## 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:MIC:76 # text = הִגִּ֥יד לְךָ֛ אָדָ֖ם מַה־טּ֑וֹב וּמָֽה־יְהוָ֞ה דּוֹרֵ֣שׁ מִמְּךָ֗ כִּ֣י אִם־עֲשׂ֤וֹת מִשְׁפָּט֙ וְאַ֣הֲבַת חֶ֔סֶד וְהַצְנֵ֥עַ לֶ֖כֶת עִם־אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃פ # verse = MIC.6.8 1 הִגִּ֥יד נָגַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.has.told|Ref=MIC_6:8!1|MId=o330060080011|Strong=5046|Frame=AA:330060070021;A0:330060080041;330060080081;330060080121;330060080142;330060080171;|Type=qatal 2-3 לְךָ֛ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 ל לְ ADP _ _ 3 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=MIC_6:8!2|MId=o330060080021|Strong=3807a 3 ְךָ֛ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ Gloss=you|Ref=MIC_6:8!2|MId=o330060080022|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 4 אָדָ֖ם אָדָם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 dislocated _ Gloss=O.humankind|Ref=MIC_6:8!3|MId=o330060080031|Strong=0120 5 מַה־ מָה PRON _ PronType=Int 1 ccomp _ Gloss=what?|Ref=MIC_6:8!4|MId=o330060080041|Strong=4100|Type=interrogative|SpaceAfter=No 6 טּ֑וֹב טוֹב ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Gloss=[is].good|Ref=MIC_6:8!5|MId=o330060080051|Strong=2896|Type=adjective 7-8 וּמָֽה־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=MIC_6:8!6|MId=o330060080061|Strong=2050b 8 מָֽה־ מָה PRON _ PronType=Int 10 obj _ Gloss=what?|Ref=MIC_6:8!6|MId=o330060080062|Strong=4100|Type=interrogative 9 יְהוָ֞ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 10 nsubj _ Gloss=[is].Yahweh|Ref=MIC_6:8!7|MId=o330060080071|Strong=3068 10 דּוֹרֵ֣שׁ דָּרַשׁ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 5 conj _ Gloss=requiring|Ref=MIC_6:8!8|MId=o330060080081|Strong=1875|Frame=A1:330060080062;A0:330060080071;|Type=participle_active 11-12 מִמְּךָ֗ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 מִמּ מִן ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=MIC_6:8!9|MId=o330060080091|Strong=4480 12 ְךָ֗ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ Gloss=you|Ref=MIC_6:8!9|MId=o330060080092|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 13 כִּ֣י כִּי SCONJ _ ExtPos=SCONJ 15 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=MIC_6:8!10|MId=o330060080101|Strong=3588 14 אִם־ אִם SCONJ _ _ 13 fixed _ Gloss=(if)|Ref=MIC_6:8!11|MId=o330060080111|Strong=0518|SpaceAfter=No 15 עֲשׂ֤וֹת עָשָׂה VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 5 parataxis _ Gloss=to.do|Ref=MIC_6:8!12|MId=o330060080121|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:330060080031;A1:330060080131;|Type=infinitive_construct 16 מִשְׁפָּט֙ מִשְׁפָּט NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 obj _ Gloss=justice|Ref=MIC_6:8!13|MId=o330060080131|Strong=4941 17-18 וְאַ֣הֲבַת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 18 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=MIC_6:8!14|MId=o330060080141|Strong=2050b 18 אַ֣הֲבַת אַהֲבָה VERB _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 15 conj _ Gloss=the.love|Ref=MIC_6:8!14|MId=o330060080142|Strong=0157|Frame=A0:330060080031;A1:330060080151; 19 חֶ֔סֶד חֶסֶד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 obj _ Gloss=of.covenant.loyalty|Ref=MIC_6:8!15|MId=o330060080151|Strong=2617 20-21 וְהַצְנֵ֥עַ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 22 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=MIC_6:8!16|MId=o330060080161|Strong=2050b 21 הַצְנֵ֥עַ צָנַע VERB _ HebBinyan=HIPHIL 22 obl:npmod _ Gloss=to.be.modest|Ref=MIC_6:8!16|MId=o330060080162|Strong=6800|Type=infinitive_absolute 22 לֶ֖כֶת הלך VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 15 conj _ Gloss=to.walk|Ref=MIC_6:8!17|MId=o330060080171|Strong=1980|Frame=A0:330060080031;|Type=infinitive_construct 23 עִם־ עִם ADP _ _ 24 case _ Gloss=with|Ref=MIC_6:8!18|MId=o330060080181|Strong=5973|SpaceAfter=No 24-25 אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 24 אֱלֹהֶֽי אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 22 obl _ Gloss=God|Ref=MIC_6:8!19|MId=o330060080191|Strong=0430 25 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=MIC_6:8!19|MId=o330060080192|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 26 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 25 punct _ Ref=MIC_6:8!19|SpaceAfter=No 27 פ פ PUNCT _ _ 25 punct _ Ref=MIC_6:8!19 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | הִגִּיד *he has told* | qatal · hiphil | מַה־ *what?* + דּוֹרֵשׁ *requiring* + עֲשׂוֹת *to do* + אַהֲבַת *the love* + לֶכֶת *to walk* | | | | | דּוֹרֵשׁ *requiring* | participle active · qal | יְהוָה *\[is\] Yahweh* | מָֽה־ *what?* | | | | עֲשׂוֹת *to do* | infinitive construct · qal | אָדָם *O humankind* | מִשְׁפָּט *justice* | | | | אַהֲבַת *the love* | | אָדָם *O humankind* | חֶסֶד *of covenant loyalty* | | | | לֶכֶת *to walk* | infinitive construct · qal | אָדָם *O humankind* | | | | 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} הַיְחַוֶה לָךְ אֱנָשָׁא מַה טַב וּמַה יְיָ תָּבַע מִנָךְ אֱלָהֵין לְמֶעְבַּד דִין דִקְשׁוֹט וּלְמִרְחַם גְמִילוֹת חִסְדָא וַהֲוֵי צְנִיעַ לְהַלְכָא בִּדְחַלְתָּא דֶאֱלָהָךְ: 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. [It hath been told thee, O man, what is good, and what the LORD doth require of thee: only to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.89/) **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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