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title: Deuteronomy 32:24 — The wasting of hunger, and the devouring of the fiery bolt, and bitt… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: The wasting of hunger, and the devouring of the fiery bolt, and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, with the venom of crawling things of the dust. Who acts: I. Deuteronomy 32:24 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Deuteronomy 32:24 דְּבָרִים

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** send, waste · **To what, where:** teeth, hunger

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This is Deuteronomy 32:24 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 — I — and what happens in the verse to teeth, hunger, 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.

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מְזֵ֥י רָעָ֛ב וּלְחֻ֥מֵי רֶ֖שֶׁף וְקֶ֣טֶב מְרִירִ֑י וְשֶׁן־בְּהֵמוֹת֙ אֲשַׁלַּח־בָּ֔ם עִם־חֲמַ֖ת זֹחֲלֵ֥י עָפָֽר׃

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[The wasting of hunger, and the devouring of the fiery bolt, and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, with the venom of crawling things of the dust.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.909/)

## 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:DEU:889
# text = מְזֵ֥י רָעָ֛ב וּלְחֻ֥מֵי רֶ֖שֶׁף וְקֶ֣טֶב מְרִירִ֑י וְשֶׁן־בְּהֵמוֹת֙ אֲשַׁלַּח־בָּ֔ם עִם־חֲמַ֖ת זֹחֲלֵ֥י עָפָֽר׃
# verse = DEU.32.24
1	מְזֵ֥י	מָזֶה	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	0	root	_	Gloss=[they.will.be].weakened|Ref=DEU_32:24!1|MId=o050320240011|Strong=4198|Type=adjective
2	רָעָ֛ב	רָעָב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.famine|Ref=DEU_32:24!2|MId=o050320240021|Strong=7458
3-4	וּלְחֻ֥מֵי	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	4	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=DEU_32:24!3|MId=o050320240031|Strong=2050b
4	לְחֻ֥מֵי	לָחַם	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur	1	conj	_	Gloss=eaten|Ref=DEU_32:24!3|MId=o050320240032|Strong=3898a|Frame=A1:050320190051;050320190062;|Type=participle_passive
5	רֶ֖שֶׁף	רֶשֶׁף	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.plague|Ref=DEU_32:24!4|MId=o050320240041|Strong=7565
6-7	וְקֶ֣טֶב	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	7	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=DEU_32:24!5|MId=o050320240051|Strong=2050b
7	קֶ֣טֶב	קֶטֶב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Gloss=destruction|Ref=DEU_32:24!5|MId=o050320240052|Strong=6986
8	מְרִירִ֑י	מְרִירִי	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	7	amod	_	Gloss=bitter|Ref=DEU_32:24!6|MId=o050320240061|Strong=4815|Type=adjective
9-10	וְשֶׁן־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	12	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=DEU_32:24!7|MId=o050320240071|Strong=2050b
10	שֶׁן־	שֵׁן	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	Gloss=tooth|Ref=DEU_32:24!7|MId=o050320240072|Strong=8127
11	בְּהֵמוֹת֙	בְּהֵמָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	10	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.animals|Ref=DEU_32:24!8|MId=o050320240081|Strong=0929
12	אֲשַׁלַּח־	שָׁלַח	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=1	1	conj	_	Gloss=I.will.send|Ref=DEU_32:24!9|MId=o050320240091|Strong=7971|Frame=A0:050320190021;A1:050320240072;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No
13-14	בָּ֔ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	בּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	14	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=DEU_32:24!10|MId=o050320240101|Strong=0871a
14	ָ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	Gloss=them|Ref=DEU_32:24!10|MId=o050320240102|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
15	עִם־	עִם	ADP	_	_	16	case	_	Gloss=with|Ref=DEU_32:24!11|MId=o050320240111|Strong=5973|SpaceAfter=No
16	חֲמַ֖ת	חֵמָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Gloss=[the].venom|Ref=DEU_32:24!12|MId=o050320240121|Strong=2534
17	זֹחֲלֵ֥י	זָחַל	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur	16	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.[things.which].crawl|Ref=DEU_32:24!13|MId=o050320240131|Strong=2119|Type=participle_active
18	עָפָֽר	עָפָר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	17	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.[the].dust|Ref=DEU_32:24!14|MId=o050320240141|Strong=6083|SpaceAfter=No
19	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	18	punct	_	Ref=DEU_32:24!14
```

## 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) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| לְחֻמֵי *eaten* | participle passive · qal |  |  |  |  |
| אֲשַׁלַּח־ *I will send* | yiqtol · piel |  | שֶׁן־ *tooth* |  |  |

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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 Onkelos {#onkelos}

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נְפִיחֵי כָפָן וַאֲכוּלֵי עוּף וּכְתִישֵׁי רוּחִין בִּישָׁן וְשֵׁן חֵיוַת בָּרָא אֱגָרֵי בְהוֹן עִם חֲמַת תַּנִינַיָא דְזָחֲלִין בְּעַפְרָא

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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 wasting of hunger, and the devouring of the fiery bolt, and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, with the venom of crawling things of the dust.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.909/)

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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:DEU:889`.

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