בַּהּ־שַׁעֲתָ֗ה נפקו [נְפַ֙קָה֙] אֶצְבְּעָן֙ דִּ֣י יַד־אֱנָ֔שׁ וְכָֽתְבָן֙ לָקֳבֵ֣ל נֶבְרַשְׁתָּ֔א עַל־גִּירָ֕א דִּֽי־כְתַ֥ל הֵיכְלָ֖א דִּ֣י מַלְכָּ֑א וּמַלְכָּ֣א חָזֵ֔ה פַּ֥ס יְדָ֖ה דִּ֥י כָתְבָֽה׃
Debug: verse number 20548At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,
/bah šaʿătā́ *nᵉfáqā ʾeṣbᵉʿā́n dī yad ʾĕnāš wᵉ xā́tᵉvon lo qŏvēl nevraštā́ ʿal gīrā́ dī xᵉtal hēxᵉlā́ dī malkā́ ū malkā́ ḥāzḗ pas yᵉdā dī xātᵉvā́ /
Gloss translation
- bah
- in
- prep + III m sg
- šaʿătā́
- hour
- n f sg emph
- *nᵉfáqā
- go out
- v √pe perf III f pl
- ʾeṣbᵉʿā́n
- finger
- n f pl abs
- dī
- [relative]
- prep
- yad
- hand
- n f sg con
- ʾĕnāš
- mankind
- n m sg abs
- wᵉ
- and
- cnj
- xā́tᵉvon
- write
- v √pe part f pl abs
- lo
- to
- prep
- qŏvēl
- opposite
- n sg con
- nevraštā́
- lamp
- n f sg emph
- ʿal
- upon
- prep
- gīrā́
- plaster
- n m sg emph
- dī
- [relative]
- prep
- xᵉtal
- wall
- n m sg con
- hēxᵉlā́
- palace
- n m sg emph
- dī
- [relative]
- prep
- malkā́
- king
- n m sg emph
- ū
- and
- cnj
- malkā́
- king
- n m sg emph
- ḥāzḗ
- see
- v √pe part m sg abs
- pas
- palm
- n m sg con
- yᵉdā
- hand
- n f sg emph
- dī
- [relative]
- cnj
- xātᵉvā́
- write
- v √pe part f sg abs
Syntactic structures
- Verbal clausesx-qatal-X clause
- Time reference
Prepositional phrase - bah šaʕᵃṯāˈ
- Predicate
Verbal phrase- *nᵊfaˈqā
- Subject
Nominal phrase - ʔeṣbᵊʕāˈn dî yaḏ ʔᵉnāš
- Time reference
- Verbal clausesParticiple clause
- Conjunction
Conjunctive phrase- wᵊ
- Predicate complement
Verbal phrase- ḵāˈṯᵊvon
- Adjunct
Prepositional phrase - lo qᵒvēl nevraštāˈ
- Complement
Prepositional phrase - ʕal gîrāˈ dî ḵᵊṯal hêḵᵊlāˈ dî malkāˈ
- Conjunction
- Verbal clausesParticiple clause
- Conjunction
Conjunctive phrase- û
- Subject
Nominal phrase - malkāˈ
- Predicate complement
Verbal phrase- ḥāzēˈ
- Object
Nominal phrase - pas yᵊḏā
- Conjunction
- Verbal clausesParticiple clause
Attributive clause- Relative
Conjunctive phrase- dî
- Predicate complement
Verbal phrase- ḵāṯᵊvāˈ
- Relative