--- title: Deuteronomy 4:37 — And because He loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them, a… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And because He loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with His presence, with His great power, out of Egypt, Who acts: God. Deuteronomy 4:37 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/DEU.4.37/) [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/) / [Deuteronomy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/) / [chapter 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU/4/) / 4:37 # Deuteronomy 4:37 דְּבָרִים **Who acts:** God · **What happens:** love, choose, bring out · **To what, where:** fathers, seed, thee, Egypt This is Deuteronomy 4:37 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 — God — and what happens in the verse to fathers, seed, thee, Egypt, 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 34 chapters of Deuteronomy on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וְתַ֗חַת כִּ֤י אָהַב֙ אֶת־אֲבֹתֶ֔יךָ וַיִּבְחַ֥ר בְּזַרְע֖וֹ אַחֲרָ֑יו וַיּוֹצִֽאֲךָ֧ בְּפָנָ֛יו בְּכֹח֥וֹ הַגָּדֹ֖ל מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃ [And because He loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with His presence, with His great power, out of Egypt,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.149/) ## 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:DEU:148 # text = וְתַ֗חַת כִּ֤י אָהַב֙ אֶת־אֲבֹתֶ֔יךָ וַיִּבְחַ֥ר בְּזַרְע֖וֹ אַחֲרָ֑יו וַיּוֹצִֽאֲךָ֧ בְּפָנָ֛יו בְּכֹח֥וֹ הַגָּדֹ֖ל מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃ # verse = DEU.4.37 1-2 וְתַ֗חַת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 4 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=DEU_4:37!1|MId=o050040370011|Strong=2050b 2 תַ֗חַת תַּחַת NOUN _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=because|Ref=DEU_4:37!1|MId=o050040370012|Strong=8478 3 כִּ֤י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 4 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=DEU_4:37!2|MId=o050040370021|Strong=3588 4 אָהַב֙ אָהֵב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.loved|Ref=DEU_4:37!3|MId=o050040370031|Strong=0157|Frame=A0:050040350051;A1:050040370051;|Type=qatal 5 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=DEU_4:37!4|MId=o050040370041|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 6-7 אֲבֹתֶ֔יךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 אֲבֹתֶ֔י אָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 4 obj _ Gloss=ancestors|Ref=DEU_4:37!5|MId=o050040370051|Strong=0001 7 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=DEU_4:37!5|MId=o050040370052|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 8-9 וַיִּבְחַ֥ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=DEU_4:37!6|MId=o050040370061|Strong=2050b 9 יִּבְחַ֥ר בָּחַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 4 conj _ Gloss=he.chose|Ref=DEU_4:37!6|MId=o050040370062|Strong=0977|Frame=A0:050040350051;|Type=wayyiqtol 10-12 בְּזַרְע֖וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=(in)|Ref=DEU_4:37!7|MId=o050040370071|Strong=0871a 11 זַרְע זֶרַע NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 obl _ Gloss=offspring|Ref=DEU_4:37!7|MId=o050040370072|Strong=2233 12 ֖וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=DEU_4:37!7|MId=o050040370073|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 13-14 אַחֲרָ֑יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 אַחֲרָ֑י אַחַר ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=after|Ref=DEU_4:37!8|MId=o050040370081|Strong=0310 14 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod _ Gloss=him|Ref=DEU_4:37!8|MId=o050040370082|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 15-17 וַיּוֹצִֽאֲךָ֧ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=DEU_4:37!9|MId=o050040370091|Strong=2050b 16 יּוֹצִֽא יָצָא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 4 conj _ Gloss=he|Ref=DEU_4:37!9|MId=o050040370092|Strong=3318|Frame=AA:050040350051;A0:050040370093;|Type=wayyiqtol 17 ֲךָ֧ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ Gloss=brought.you.out|Ref=DEU_4:37!9|MId=o050040370093|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 18-20 בְּפָנָ֛יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=by|Ref=DEU_4:37!10|MId=o050040370101|Strong=0871a 19 פָנָ֛י פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 16 obl _ Gloss=his.own|Ref=DEU_4:37!10|MId=o050040370102|Strong=6440 20 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ Gloss=presence|Ref=DEU_4:37!10|MId=o050040370103|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 21-23 בְּכֹח֥וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 22 case _ Gloss=by|Ref=DEU_4:37!11|MId=o050040370111|Strong=0871a 22 כֹח כֹּחַ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 obl _ Gloss=power|Ref=DEU_4:37!11|MId=o050040370112|Strong=3581 23 ֥וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=DEU_4:37!11|MId=o050040370113|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 24-25 הַגָּדֹ֖ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 24 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 25 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=DEU_4:37!12|MId=o050040370121|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 25 גָּדֹ֖ל גָּדוֹל ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 22 amod _ Gloss=great|Ref=DEU_4:37!12|MId=o050040370122|Strong=1419|Type=adjective 26-27 מִמִּצְרָֽיִם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 26 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 27 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=DEU_4:37!13|MId=o050040370131|Strong=4480 27 מִּצְרָֽיִם מִצְרַיִם PROPN _ _ 16 obl _ Gloss=Egypt|Ref=DEU_4:37!13|MId=o050040370132|Strong=4714 28 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 27 punct _ Ref=DEU_4:37!13 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | אָהַב *he loved* | qatal · qal | | אֲבֹתֶי *ancestors* | | | | יִּבְחַר *he chose* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | יּוֹצִֽא *he* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | ֲךָ *brought you out* | | | | 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} וָחֳלַף אֲרֵי רְחִים יָת אֲבָהָתָךְ וְאִתִּרְעֵי בִּבְנוֹהִי בַּתְרוֹהִי וְאַפְּקָךְ בְּמֵימְרֵהּ בְּחֵילֵהּ רַבָּא מִמִצְרָיִם 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 because He loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with His presence, with His great power, out of Egypt,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.149/) **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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