--- title: Isaiah 63:16 — For Thou art our Father; for Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: For Thou art our Father; for Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us; Thou, O LORD, art our Father, our Redeemer from everlasting is Thy name. Who acts: Thou, Abraham, Israel. 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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 — Thou, Abraham, Israel — and what happens in the verse to Father, us, Thou, name, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan 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 66 chapters of Isaiah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. כִּֽי־אַתָּ֣ה אָבִ֔ינוּ כִּ֤י אַבְרָהָם֙ לֹ֣א יְדָעָ֔נוּ וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֹ֣א יַכִּירָ֑נוּ אַתָּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ אָבִ֔ינוּ גֹּאֲלֵ֥נוּ מֵֽעוֹלָ֖ם שְׁמֶֽךָ׃ [For Thou art our Father; for Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us; Thou, O LORD, art our Father, our Redeemer from everlasting is Thy name.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1359/) ## 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:ISA:1227 # text = כִּֽי־אַתָּ֣ה אָבִ֔ינוּ כִּ֤י אַבְרָהָם֙ לֹ֣א יְדָעָ֔נוּ וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֹ֣א יַכִּירָ֑נוּ אַתָּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ אָבִ֔ינוּ גֹּאֲלֵ֥נוּ מֵֽעוֹלָ֖ם שְׁמֶֽךָ׃ # verse = ISA.63.16 1 כִּֽי־ כִּי SCONJ _ _ 3 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=ISA_63:16!1|MId=o230630160011|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No 2 אַתָּ֣ה אַתָּה PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ Gloss=you|Ref=ISA_63:16!2|MId=o230630160021|Strong=0859|Type=personal 3-4 אָבִ֔ינוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 אָבִ֔י אָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=father|Ref=ISA_63:16!3|MId=o230630160031|Strong=0001 4 נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ Gloss=[are].our|Ref=ISA_63:16!3|MId=o230630160032|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 5 כִּ֤י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 8 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=ISA_63:16!4|MId=o230630160041|Strong=3588 6 אַבְרָהָם֙ אַבְרָהָם PROPN _ _ 8 nsubj _ Gloss=Abraham|Ref=ISA_63:16!5|MId=o230630160051|Strong=0085 7 לֹ֣א לֹא ADV _ _ 8 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=ISA_63:16!6|MId=o230630160061|Strong=3808|Type=negative 8-9 יְדָעָ֔נוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 יְדָע יָדַע VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 3 advcl _ Gloss=he|Ref=ISA_63:16!7|MId=o230630160071|Strong=3045|Frame=A0:230630160051;A1:230630160072;|Type=qatal 9 ָ֔נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ Gloss=knows.us|Ref=ISA_63:16!7|MId=o230630160072|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 10-11 וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 13 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_63:16!8|MId=o230630160081|Strong=2050b 11 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 13 nsubj _ Gloss=Israel|Ref=ISA_63:16!8|MId=o230630160082|Strong=3478 12 לֹ֣א לֹא ADV _ _ 13 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=ISA_63:16!9|MId=o230630160091|Strong=3808|Type=negative 13-14 יַכִּירָ֑נוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 יַכִּיר נָכַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 3 conj _ Gloss=he|Ref=ISA_63:16!10|MId=o230630160101|Strong=5234|Frame=AA:230630160082;A0:230630160102;|Type=yiqtol 14 ָ֑נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ Gloss=acknowledges.us|Ref=ISA_63:16!10|MId=o230630160102|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 15 אַתָּ֤ה אַתָּה PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ Gloss=you|Ref=ISA_63:16!11|MId=o230630160111|Strong=0859|Type=personal 16 יְהוָה֙ יהוה PROPN _ _ 17 dislocated _ Gloss=O.Yahweh|Ref=ISA_63:16!12|MId=o230630160121|Strong=3068 17-18 אָבִ֔ינוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 אָבִ֔י אָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ Gloss=father|Ref=ISA_63:16!13|MId=o230630160131|Strong=0001 18 נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ Gloss=[are].our|Ref=ISA_63:16!13|MId=o230630160132|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 19-20 גֹּאֲלֵ֥נוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 גֹּאֲל גָּאַל VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ Gloss=[is].our|Ref=ISA_63:16!14|MId=o230630160141|Strong=1350|Type=participle_active 20 ֵ֥נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ Gloss=redeemer|Ref=ISA_63:16!14|MId=o230630160142|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 21-22 מֵֽעוֹלָ֖ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 מֵֽ מִן ADP _ _ 22 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=ISA_63:16!15|MId=o230630160151|Strong=4480 22 עוֹלָ֖ם עוֹלָם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 19 obl _ Gloss=long.ago|Ref=ISA_63:16!15|MId=o230630160152|Strong=5769 23-24 שְׁמֶֽךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 23 שְׁמ שֵׁם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Gloss=name|Ref=ISA_63:16!16|MId=o230630160161|Strong=8034 24 ֶֽךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=ISA_63:16!16|MId=o230630160162|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 25 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 24 punct _ Ref=ISA_63:16!16 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **not** יְדָע *he* | qatal · qal | אַבְרָהָם *Abraham* | ָנוּ *knows us* | | | | **not** יַכִּיר *he* | yiqtol · hiphil | ָנוּ *acknowledges us* | | | יִשְׂרָאֵל *Israel* | 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 Jonathan {#onkelos} אֲרֵי אַתְּ הוּא דְרַחֲמָךְ עֲלָנָא סַגִיאִין כְּאָב עַל בְּנִין אֲרֵי אַבְרָהָם לָא אַסְקָנָא מִמִצְרַיִם וְיִשְׂרָאֵל לָא עָבַד לָנָא פְּרִישָׁן בְּמַדְבְּרָא אַתְּ הוּא יְיָ וְרַחְמָךְ עֲלָנָא סַגִיאִין כְּאָב עַל בְּנִין פִּרְקְנָא מַעֲלַם שְׁמָךְ: 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. [For Thou art our Father; for Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us; Thou, O LORD, art our Father, our Redeemer from everlasting is Thy name.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1359/) **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:ISA:1227`. - ← previous: [Isaiah 63:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.63.15/) - next →: [Isaiah 63:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.63.17/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/63/)