2 Samuel 21:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

Then the men of David swore unto him, saying: 'Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the lamp of Israel.'

Who acts: men, Thou · What happens: swear, say, go, not quench · To what, where: battle, lamp · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Samuel 21:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, Thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

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The Hebrew of this verse

וַיַּֽעֲזָר־לוֹ֙ אֲבִישַׁ֣י בֶּן־צְרוּיָ֔ה וַיַּ֥ךְ אֶת־הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖י וַיְמִיתֵ֑הוּ אָ֣ז נִשְׁבְּעוּ֩ אַנְשֵׁי־דָוִ֨ד ל֜וֹ לֵאמֹ֗ר לֹא־תֵצֵ֨א ע֤וֹד אִתָּ֙נוּ֙ לַמִּלְחָמָ֔ה וְלֹ֥א תְכַבֶּ֖ה אֶת־נֵ֥ר יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃פ

2 Samuel 21:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

This verse in JPS 1917:

1. But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him.
2. Then the men of David swore unto him, saying: 'Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the lamp of Israel.'

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