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title: Zechariah 12:5 — And the chiefs of Judah shall say in their heart: 'The inhabitants o… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And the chiefs of Judah shall say in their heart: 'The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength through the LORD of hosts their God.' Who acts: chiefs, inhabitants. Zechariah 12:5 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zechariah 12:5 זְכַרְיָה

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**Who acts:** chiefs, inhabitants · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** heart, strength · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse

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This is Zechariah 12:5 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 — chiefs, inhabitants — and what happens in the verse to heart, strength, 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 14 chapters of Zechariah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וְאָֽמְר֛וּ אַלֻּפֵ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה בְּלִבָּ֑ם אַמְצָ֥ה לִי֙ יֹשְׁבֵ֣י יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם בַּיהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃

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[And the chiefs of Judah shall say in their heart: 'The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength through the LORD of hosts their God.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.179/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:ZEC:171
# text = וְאָֽמְר֛וּ אַלֻּפֵ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה בְּלִבָּ֑ם אַמְצָ֥ה לִי֙ יֹשְׁבֵ֣י יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם בַּיהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃
# verse = ZEC.12.5
1-2	וְאָֽמְר֛וּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=ZEC_12:5!1|MId=o380120050011|Strong=2050b
2	אָֽמְר֛וּ	אָמַר	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=they.will.say|Ref=ZEC_12:5!1|MId=o380120050012|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:380120050021;|Type=weqatal
3	אַלֻּפֵ֥י	אַלּוּף	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=the.chiefs|Ref=ZEC_12:5!2|MId=o380120050021|Strong=0441
4	יְהוּדָ֖ה	יְהוּדָה	PROPN	_	_	3	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Judah|Ref=ZEC_12:5!3|MId=o380120050031|Strong=3063
5-7	בְּלִבָּ֑ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
5	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	6	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=ZEC_12:5!4|MId=o380120050041|Strong=0871a
6	לִבּ	לֵב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Gloss=heart|Ref=ZEC_12:5!4|MId=o380120050042|Strong=3820
7	ָ֑ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=their|Ref=ZEC_12:5!4|MId=o380120050043|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
8	אַמְצָ֥ה	אַמְצָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	Gloss=[are].strength|Ref=ZEC_12:5!5|MId=o380120050051|Strong=0556
9-10	לִי֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	ל	לְ	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	Gloss=|Ref=ZEC_12:5!6|MId=o380120050061|Strong=3807a
10	ִי֙	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	Gloss=my|Ref=ZEC_12:5!6|MId=o380120050062|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
11	יֹשְׁבֵ֣י	יָשַׁב	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	Gloss=the.inhabitants|Ref=ZEC_12:5!7|MId=o380120050071|Strong=3427|Type=participle_active
12	יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם	יְרוּשָׁלִַ͏ם	PROPN	_	_	11	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Jerusalem|Ref=ZEC_12:5!8|MId=o380120050081|Strong=3389
13-14	בַּיהוָ֥ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	14	case	_	Gloss=by|Ref=ZEC_12:5!9|MId=o380120050091|Strong=0871a
14	יהוָ֥ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	8	obl	_	Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=ZEC_12:5!9|MId=o380120050092|Strong=3068
15	צְבָא֖וֹת	צָבָא	NOUN	_	Number=Plur	14	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.hosts|Ref=ZEC_12:5!10|MId=o380120050101|Strong=6635
16-17	אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	אֱלֹהֵי	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	14	appos	_	Gloss=God|Ref=ZEC_12:5!11|MId=o380120050111|Strong=0430
17	הֶֽם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=their|Ref=ZEC_12:5!11|MId=o380120050112|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
18	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	17	punct	_	Ref=ZEC_12:5!11
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: a frame and its quote
- negation: no
- the frame alone: decl · assert · none

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| אָֽמְרוּ *they will say* | weqatal · qal | אַלֻּפֵי *the chiefs* |  |  |  |

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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}

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וְיֵימְרוּן רַבְרְבֵי יְהוּדָה בְּלִבְּהוֹן אִשְׁתְּכַח פוּרְקַן לְיַתְבֵי יְרוּשְׁלֵם בְּמֵימְרָא דַייָ צְבָאוֹת אֱלָהָהוֹן:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [And the chiefs of Judah shall say in their heart: 'The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength through the LORD of hosts their God.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.179/)

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**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:ZEC:171`.

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