--- title: Exodus 18:25 — And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. Who acts: Moses. Exodus 18:25 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/EXO.18.25/) [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/) / [Exodus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/) / [chapter 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO/18/) / 18:25 # Exodus 18:25 שְׁמוֹת **Who acts:** Moses · **What happens:** choose, make · **To what, where:** able men, Israel, man This is Exodus 18:25 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 — Moses — and what happens in the verse to able men, Israel, man, 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 40 chapters of Exodus on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וַיִּבְחַ֨ר מֹשֶׁ֤ה אַנְשֵׁי־חַ֙יִל֙ מִכָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיִּתֵּ֥ן אֹתָ֛ם רָאשִׁ֖ים עַל־הָעָ֑ם שָׂרֵ֤י אֲלָפִים֙ שָׂרֵ֣י מֵא֔וֹת שָׂרֵ֥י חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים וְשָׂרֵ֥י עֲשָׂרֹֽת׃ [And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.525/) ## 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:EXO:491 # text = וַיִּבְחַ֨ר מֹשֶׁ֤ה אַנְשֵׁי־חַ֙יִל֙ מִכָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיִּתֵּ֥ן אֹתָ֛ם רָאשִׁ֖ים עַל־הָעָ֑ם שָׂרֵ֤י אֲלָפִים֙ שָׂרֵ֣י מֵא֔וֹת שָׂרֵ֥י חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים וְשָׂרֵ֥י עֲשָׂרֹֽת׃ # verse = EXO.18.25 1-2 וַיִּבְחַ֨ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_18:25!1|MId=o020180250011|Strong=2050b 2 יִּבְחַ֨ר בָּחַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.chose|Ref=EXO_18:25!1|MId=o020180250012|Strong=0977|Frame=A0:020180250021;A1:020180250031;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 מֹשֶׁ֤ה מֹשֶׁה PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Moses|Ref=EXO_18:25!2|MId=o020180250021|Strong=4872 4 אַנְשֵׁי־ אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 obj _ Gloss=men|Ref=EXO_18:25!3|MId=o020180250031|Strong=0376|SpaceAfter=No 5 חַ֙יִל֙ חַיִל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.ability|Ref=EXO_18:25!4|MId=o020180250041|Strong=2428 6-7 מִכָּל־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=EXO_18:25!5|MId=o020180250051|Strong=4480 7 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 obl _ Gloss=all|Ref=EXO_18:25!5|MId=o020180250052|Strong=3605 8 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=Israel|Ref=EXO_18:25!6|MId=o020180250061|Strong=3478 9-10 וַיִּתֵּ֥ן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_18:25!7|MId=o020180250071|Strong=2050b 10 יִּתֵּ֥ן נָתַן VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.appointed|Ref=EXO_18:25!7|MId=o020180250072|Strong=5414|Frame=A0:020180250021;A1:020180250082;|Type=wayyiqtol 11-12 אֹתָ֛ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 אֹת אֵת ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=|Ref=EXO_18:25!8|MId=o020180250081|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker 12 ָ֛ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ Gloss=them|Ref=EXO_18:25!8|MId=o020180250082|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 13 רָאשִׁ֖ים רֹאשׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 10 xcomp _ Gloss=chiefs|Ref=EXO_18:25!9|MId=o020180250091|Strong=7218 14 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=over|Ref=EXO_18:25!10|MId=o020180250101|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 15-16 הָעָ֑ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 16 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=EXO_18:25!11|MId=o020180250111|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 16 עָ֑ם עַם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 obl _ Gloss=people|Ref=EXO_18:25!11|MId=o020180250112|Strong=5971 17 שָׂרֵ֤י שַׂר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 13 appos _ Gloss=leaders|Ref=EXO_18:25!12|MId=o020180250121|Strong=8269 18 אֲלָפִים֙ אֶלֶף NUM _ Number=Plur 17 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.thousands|Ref=EXO_18:25!13|MId=o020180250131|Strong=0505|Type=cardinal_number 19 שָׂרֵ֣י שַׂר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 17 conj _ Gloss=leaders|Ref=EXO_18:25!14|MId=o020180250141|Strong=8269 20 מֵא֔וֹת מֵאָה NUM _ Number=Plur 19 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.hundreds|Ref=EXO_18:25!15|MId=o020180250151|Strong=3967|Type=cardinal_number 21 שָׂרֵ֥י שַׂר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 17 conj _ Gloss=leaders|Ref=EXO_18:25!16|MId=o020180250161|Strong=8269 22 חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים חָמֵשׁ NUM _ Number=Plur 21 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.fifties|Ref=EXO_18:25!17|MId=o020180250171|Strong=2572|Type=cardinal_number 23-24 וְשָׂרֵ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 23 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 24 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=EXO_18:25!18|MId=o020180250181|Strong=2050b 24 שָׂרֵ֥י שַׂר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 17 conj _ Gloss=leaders|Ref=EXO_18:25!18|MId=o020180250182|Strong=8269 25 עֲשָׂרֹֽת עֲשָׂרָה NUM _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 24 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.tens|Ref=EXO_18:25!19|MId=o020180250191|Strong=6235|Type=cardinal_number|SpaceAfter=No 26 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 25 punct _ Ref=EXO_18:25!19 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִּבְחַר *he chose* | wayyiqtol · qal | מֹשֶׁה *Moses* | אַנְשֵׁי־ *men* | | | | יִּתֵּן *he appointed* | wayyiqtol · qal | מֹשֶׁה *Moses* | ָם *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} וּבְחַר משֶׁה גֻבְרִין דְחֵילָא מִכָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל וּמַנִי יָתְהוֹן רֵישִׁין עַל עַמָא רַבָּנֵי אַלְפִין רַבָּנֵי מָאוָתָא רַבָּנֵי חַמְשִׁין וְרַבָּנֵי עִשׂוֹרְיָתָא: 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. [And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.525/) **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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