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title: Zephaniah 2:11 — The LORD will be terrible unto them; for He will famish all the gods… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: The LORD will be terrible unto them; for He will famish all the gods of the earth; then shall all the isles of the nations worship Him, every one from its place. Who acts: LORD, isles. Zephaniah 2:11 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Zephaniah 2:11 צְפַנְיָה

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**Who acts:** LORD, isles · **What happens:** be, famish, worship · **To what, where:** gods, LORD

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This is Zephaniah 2:11 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, isles — and what happens in the verse to gods, LORD, 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 3 chapters of Zephaniah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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נוֹרָ֤א יְהוָה֙ עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם כִּ֣י רָזָ֔ה אֵ֖ת כָּל־אֱלֹהֵ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ וְיִשְׁתַּֽחֲווּ־לוֹ֙ אִ֣ישׁ מִמְּקוֹמ֔וֹ כֹּ֖ל אִיֵּ֥י הַגּוֹיִֽם׃

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[The LORD will be terrible unto them; for He will famish all the gods of the earth; then shall all the isles of the nations worship Him, every one from its place.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEP.29/)

## 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:ZEP:28
# text = נוֹרָ֤א יְהוָה֙ עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם כִּ֣י רָזָ֔ה אֵ֖ת כָּל־אֱלֹהֵ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ וְיִשְׁתַּֽחֲווּ־לוֹ֙ אִ֣ישׁ מִמְּקוֹמ֔וֹ כֹּ֖ל אִיֵּ֥י הַגּוֹיִֽם׃
# verse = ZEP.2.11
1	נוֹרָ֤א	יָרֵא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing	0	root	_	Gloss=[will.be].awesome|Ref=ZEP_2:11!1|MId=o360020110011|Strong=3372|Frame=A1:360020110021;|Type=participle_active
2	יְהוָה֙	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	1	nsubj	_	Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=ZEP_2:11!2|MId=o360020110021|Strong=3068
3-4	עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	עֲלֵי	עַל	ADP	_	_	4	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=ZEP_2:11!3|MId=o360020110031|Strong=5921
4	הֶ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	Gloss=them|Ref=ZEP_2:11!3|MId=o360020110032|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
5	כִּ֣י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	6	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=ZEP_2:11!4|MId=o360020110041|Strong=3588
6	רָזָ֔ה	רָזָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	1	advcl	_	Gloss=he.will.make.lean|Ref=ZEP_2:11!5|MId=o360020110051|Strong=7329|Frame=A0:360020110021;A1:360020110081;|Type=qatal
7	אֵ֖ת	אֵת	ADP	_	_	8	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=ZEP_2:11!6|MId=o360020110061|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker
8	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	obj	_	Gloss=all|Ref=ZEP_2:11!7|MId=o360020110071|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No
9	אֱלֹהֵ֣י	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	8	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.gods|Ref=ZEP_2:11!8|MId=o360020110081|Strong=0430
10-11	הָאָ֑רֶץ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	הָ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	11	det	_	Gloss=of|Ref=ZEP_2:11!9|MId=o360020110091|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
11	אָ֑רֶץ	אֶרֶץ	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	9	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.earth|Ref=ZEP_2:11!9|MId=o360020110092|Strong=0776
12-13	וְיִשְׁתַּֽחֲווּ־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	13	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=ZEP_2:11!10|MId=o360020110101|Strong=2050b
13	יִשְׁתַּֽחֲווּ־	חוה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3	1	conj	_	Gloss=they.will.bow.down|Ref=ZEP_2:11!10|MId=o360020110102|Strong=7812a|Frame=A0:360020110151;|Type=yiqtol
14-15	לוֹ֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
14	ל	לְ	ADP	_	_	15	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=ZEP_2:11!11|MId=o360020110111|Strong=3807a
15	וֹ֙	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	Gloss=him|Ref=ZEP_2:11!11|MId=o360020110112|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
16	אִ֣ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Gloss=everyone|Ref=ZEP_2:11!12|MId=o360020110121|Strong=0376
17-19	מִמְּקוֹמ֔וֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	_	18	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=ZEP_2:11!13|MId=o360020110131|Strong=4480
18	מְּקוֹמ	מָקוֹם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Gloss=his.own|Ref=ZEP_2:11!13|MId=o360020110132|Strong=4725
19	֔וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=place|Ref=ZEP_2:11!13|MId=o360020110133|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
20	כֹּ֖ל	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Gloss=all|Ref=ZEP_2:11!14|MId=o360020110141|Strong=3605
21	אִיֵּ֥י	אִי	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	20	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.islands|Ref=ZEP_2:11!15|MId=o360020110151|Strong=0339
22-23	הַגּוֹיִֽם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
22	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	23	det	_	Gloss=of|Ref=ZEP_2:11!16|MId=o360020110161|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
23	גּוֹיִֽם	גּוֹי	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	21	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.nations|Ref=ZEP_2:11!16|MId=o360020110162|Strong=1471
24	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	23	punct	_	Ref=ZEP_2:11!16
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| נוֹרָא *\[will be\] awesome* | participle active · niphal |  | יְהוָה *Yahweh* |  |  |
| רָזָה *he will make lean* | qatal · qal | יְהוָה *Yahweh* | אֱלֹהֵי *the gods* |  |  |
| יִשְׁתַּֽחֲווּ־ *they will bow down* | yiqtol | אִיֵּי *the islands* |  |  |  |

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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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דְחִילָא דַייָ לְמִפְרַקְהוֹן אֲרֵי אַמְעִיךְ יַת כֹּל דַחֲלַת אַרְעָא וְיִבְעוֹן מִן קֳדָמוֹהִי גְבַר מֵאַתְרֵיהּ כָּל נַגְוַת עַמְמַיָא:

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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. [The LORD will be terrible unto them; for He will famish all the gods of the earth; then shall all the isles of the nations worship Him, every one from its place.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEP.29/)

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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:ZEP:28`.

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