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title: Job 2:5 — But put forth Thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, surely… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: But put forth Thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, surely he will blaspheme Thee to Thy face.' Who acts: you, Satan. Job 2:5 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 2:5 אִיּוֹב

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**Who acts:** you, Satan · **What happens:** put, touch, blaspheme · **To what, where:** hand, bone, Thee

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This is Job 2:5 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). 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 — you, Satan — and what happens in the verse to hand, bone, Thee, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum 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 42 chapters of Job on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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אוּלָם֙ שְֽׁלַֽח־נָ֣א יָֽדְךָ֔ וְגַ֥ע אֶל־עַצְמ֖וֹ וְאֶל־בְּשָׂר֑וֹ אִם־לֹ֥א אֶל־פָּנֶ֖יךָ יְבָרֲכֶֽךָּ׃

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[But put forth Thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, surely he will blaspheme Thee to Thy face.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.27/)

## 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:JOB:26
# text = אוּלָם֙ שְֽׁלַֽח־נָ֣א יָֽדְךָ֔ וְגַ֥ע אֶל־עַצְמ֖וֹ וְאֶל־בְּשָׂר֑וֹ אִם־לֹ֥א אֶל־פָּנֶ֖יךָ יְבָרֲכֶֽךָּ׃
# verse = JOB.2.5
1	אוּלָם֙	אוּלָם	ADV	_	_	2	advmod	_	Gloss=but|Ref=JOB_2:5!1|MId=o180020050011|Strong=0199
2	שְֽׁלַֽח־	שָׁלַח	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2	0	root	_	Gloss=stretch.out|Ref=JOB_2:5!2|MId=o180020050021|Strong=7971|Frame=A0:180020040041;A1:180020050041;|Type=imperative|SpaceAfter=No
3	נָ֣א	נָא	INTJ	_	_	2	discourse	_	Gloss=please|Ref=JOB_2:5!3|MId=o180020050031|Strong=4994|Type=exhortation
4-5	יָֽדְךָ֔	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	יָֽד	יָד	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	Gloss=hand|Ref=JOB_2:5!4|MId=o180020050041|Strong=3027
5	ְךָ֔	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=your|Ref=JOB_2:5!4|MId=o180020050042|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal
6-7	וְגַ֥ע	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	7	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=JOB_2:5!5|MId=o180020050051|Strong=2050b
7	גַ֥ע	נָגַע	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2	2	conj	_	Gloss=touch|Ref=JOB_2:5!5|MId=o180020050052|Strong=5060|Frame=A0:180020040041;|Type=imperative
8	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	Gloss=(to)|Ref=JOB_2:5!6|MId=o180020050061|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No
9-10	עַצְמ֖וֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	עַצְמ	עֶצֶם	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Gloss=bone|Ref=JOB_2:5!7|MId=o180020050071|Strong=6106
10	֖וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his|Ref=JOB_2:5!7|MId=o180020050072|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
11-12	וְאֶל־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	13	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=JOB_2:5!8|MId=o180020050081|Strong=2050b
12	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	_	13	case	_	Gloss=(to)|Ref=JOB_2:5!8|MId=o180020050082|Strong=0413
13-14	בְּשָׂר֑וֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	בְּשָׂר	בָּשָׂר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Gloss=flesh|Ref=JOB_2:5!9|MId=o180020050091|Strong=1320
14	֑וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his|Ref=JOB_2:5!9|MId=o180020050092|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
15	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	_	20	mark	_	Gloss=if|Ref=JOB_2:5!10|MId=o180020050101|Strong=0518|SpaceAfter=No
16	לֹ֥א	לֹא	ADV	_	_	20	advmod	_	Gloss=not|Ref=JOB_2:5!11|MId=o180020050111|Strong=3808|Type=negative
17	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	_	18	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=JOB_2:5!12|MId=o180020050121|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No
18-19	פָּנֶ֖יךָ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
18	פָּנֶ֖י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	_	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	Gloss=face|Ref=JOB_2:5!13|MId=o180020050131|Strong=6440
19	ךָ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=your|Ref=JOB_2:5!13|MId=o180020050132|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal
20-21	יְבָרֲכֶֽךָּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
20	יְבָרֲכ	בָּרַךְ	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	parataxis	_	Gloss=he|Ref=JOB_2:5!14|MId=o180020050141|Strong=1288|Frame=A0:180010220051;A1:180020050142;|Type=yiqtol
21	ֶֽךָּ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	Gloss=will.bless.you|Ref=JOB_2:5!14|MId=o180020050142|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal
22	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	21	punct	_	Ref=JOB_2:5!14
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: yes
- hedged: yes (נָא)

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| שְֽׁלַֽח־ *stretch out* | imperative · qal |  | יָֽד *hand* |  |  |
| גַע *touch* | imperative · qal |  |  |  |  |
| **not** יְבָרֲכ *he* | yiqtol · piel |  | ֶֽךָּ *will bless you* |  |  |

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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.

## The Targum {#onkelos}

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בְּרַם אוֹשִׁיט כְּדוּן מְחַת יְדָךְ וּקְרִיב לְגַרְמֵיהּ וּלְבִסְרֵיהּ אִין לָא בְאַנְפֵּי מֵימְרָךְ יַרְגְזִינָךְ:

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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. [But put forth Thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, surely he will blaspheme Thee to Thy face.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.27/)

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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:JOB:26`.

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