--- title: Deuteronomy 32:17 — They sacrificed unto demons, no-gods, gods that they knew not, new g… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: They sacrificed unto demons, no-gods, gods that they knew not, new gods that came up of late, which your fathers dreaded not. Who acts: elders, new gods, fathers. Deuteronomy 32:17 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, 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/torah/DEU.32.17/) [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/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Deuteronomy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/) / [chapter 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/32/) / 32:17 # Deuteronomy 32:17 דְּבָרִים **Who acts:** elders, new gods, fathers · **What happens:** sacrifice, not know, come up, not dread · **To what, where:** gods, new gods This is Deuteronomy 32:17 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). 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 — elders, new gods, fathers — and what happens in the verse to gods, new gods, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos 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 34 chapters of Deuteronomy on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. יִזְבְּח֗וּ לַשֵּׁדִים֙ לֹ֣א אֱלֹ֔הַ אֱלֹהִ֖ים לֹ֣א יְדָע֑וּם חֲדָשִׁים֙ מִקָּרֹ֣ב בָּ֔אוּ לֹ֥א שְׂעָר֖וּם אֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃ [They sacrificed unto demons, no-gods, gods that they knew not, new gods that came up of late, which your fathers dreaded not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.902/) ## 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:DEU:882 # text = יִזְבְּח֗וּ לַשֵּׁדִים֙ לֹ֣א אֱלֹ֔הַ אֱלֹהִ֖ים לֹ֣א יְדָע֑וּם חֲדָשִׁים֙ מִקָּרֹ֣ב בָּ֔אוּ לֹ֥א שְׂעָר֖וּם אֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃ # verse = DEU.32.17 1 יִזְבְּח֗וּ זָבַח VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.sacrificed|Ref=DEU_32:17!1|MId=o050320170011|Strong=2076|Frame=A0:050320150021;|Type=yiqtol 2-4 לַשֵּׁדִים֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=DEU_32:17!2|MId=o050320170021|Strong=3807a 3 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 4 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=DEU_32:17!2|MId=o050320170021ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 4 שֵּׁדִים֙ שֵׁד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 1 obl _ Gloss=demons|Ref=DEU_32:17!2|MId=o050320170022|Strong=7700 5 לֹ֣א לֹא ADV _ _ 6 advmod _ Gloss=[which].not|Ref=DEU_32:17!3|MId=o050320170031|Strong=3808|Type=negative 6 אֱלֹ֔הַ אֱלֹוהַּ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 acl _ Gloss=[are].God|Ref=DEU_32:17!4|MId=o050320170041|Strong=0433 7 אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 4 appos _ Gloss=gods|Ref=DEU_32:17!5|MId=o050320170051|Strong=0430 8 לֹ֣א לֹא ADV _ _ 9 advmod _ Gloss=[which].not|Ref=DEU_32:17!6|MId=o050320170061|Strong=3808|Type=negative 9-10 יְדָע֑וּם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 יְדָע֑וּ יָדַע VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 7 acl _ Gloss=they|Ref=DEU_32:17!7|MId=o050320170071|Strong=3045|Frame=A0:050320150021;A1:050320170072;|Type=qatal 10 ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ Gloss=had.known.them|Ref=DEU_32:17!7|MId=o050320170072|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 11 חֲדָשִׁים֙ חָדָשׁ ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 4 appos _ Gloss=new.[gods]|Ref=DEU_32:17!8|MId=o050320170081|Strong=2319|Type=adjective 12-13 מִקָּרֹ֣ב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=[which].from|Ref=DEU_32:17!9|MId=o050320170091|Strong=4480 13 קָּרֹ֣ב קָרֹוב ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 14 obl _ Gloss=near|Ref=DEU_32:17!9|MId=o050320170092|Strong=7138|Type=adjective 14 בָּ֔אוּ בּוֹא VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 11 acl _ Gloss=they.had.come|Ref=DEU_32:17!10|MId=o050320170101|Strong=0935|Frame=A0:050320170081;|Type=qatal 15 לֹ֥א לֹא ADV _ _ 16 advmod _ Gloss=[which].not|Ref=DEU_32:17!11|MId=o050320170111|Strong=3808|Type=negative 16-17 שְׂעָר֖וּם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 שְׂעָר֖וּ שָׂעַר VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 1 parataxis _ Gloss=they|Ref=DEU_32:17!12|MId=o050320170121|Strong=8175b|Frame=A1:050320170122;A0:050320170131;|Type=qatal 17 ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ Gloss=had.known.about.them|Ref=DEU_32:17!12|MId=o050320170122|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 18-19 אֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 אֲבֹתֵי אָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ Gloss=ancestors|Ref=DEU_32:17!13|MId=o050320170131|Strong=0001 19 כֶֽם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=DEU_32:17!13|MId=o050320170132|Strong=3641b|Type=pronominal 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=DEU_32:17!13 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִזְבְּחוּ *they sacrificed* | yiqtol · qal | | | | | | **not** יְדָעוּ *they* | qatal · qal | | ם *had known them* | | | | בָּאוּ *they had come* | qatal · qal | חֲדָשִׁים *new \[gods\]* | | | | | **not** שְׂעָרוּ *they* | qatal · qal | אֲבֹתֵי *ancestors* | ם *had known about them* | | | 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 Onkelos {#onkelos} דבָּחוּ לשֵׁדין דִלֵית בְּהוֹן צְרוֹךְ דַחֲלָן דְלָא יְדָעֻנוּן חַדְתִּין דִי מִקָרִיב אִתְעֲבִידוּ לָא אִתְעַסְקוּ בְהוֹן אֲבָהָתְכוֹן 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. [They sacrificed unto demons, no-gods, gods that they knew not, new gods that came up of late, which your fathers dreaded not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.902/) **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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