--- title: Genesis 12:3 — And I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee wil… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.' Who acts: I. Genesis 12:3 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/GEN.12.3/) [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/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/12/) / 12:3 # Genesis 12:3 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** bless, curse · **To what, where:** them, thee, LORD, families This is Genesis 12:3 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 — I — and what happens in the verse to them, thee, LORD, families, 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 50 chapters of Genesis on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וַאֲבָֽרֲכָה֙ מְבָ֣רְכֶ֔יךָ וּמְקַלֶּלְךָ֖ אָאֹ֑ר וְנִבְרְכ֣וּ בְךָ֔ כֹּ֖ל מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת הָאֲדָמָֽה׃ [And I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.315/) ## 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:GEN:301 # text = וַאֲבָֽרֲכָה֙ מְבָ֣רְכֶ֔יךָ וּמְקַלֶּלְךָ֖ אָאֹ֑ר וְנִבְרְכ֣וּ בְךָ֔ כֹּ֖ל מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת הָאֲדָמָֽה׃ # verse = GEN.12.3 1-2 וַאֲבָֽרֲכָה֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_12:3!1|MId=o010120030011|Strong=2050b 2 אֲבָֽרֲכָה֙ בָּרַךְ VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=1 0 root _ Gloss=I.will.bless|Ref=GEN_12:3!1|MId=o010120030012|Strong=1288|Frame=A0:010120010021;A1:010120030021;|Type=yiqtol 3-4 מְבָ֣רְכֶ֔יךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 מְבָ֣רְכֶ֔י בָּרַךְ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur 2 obj _ Gloss=[those|Ref=GEN_12:3!2|MId=o010120030021|Strong=1288|Frame=A1:010120030022;|Type=participle_active 4 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ Gloss=who].bless.you|Ref=GEN_12:3!2|MId=o010120030022|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 5-7 וּמְקַלֶּלְךָ֖ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 8 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_12:3!3|MId=o010120030031|Strong=2050b 6 מְקַלֶּל קָלַל VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing 8 obj _ Gloss=[one|Ref=GEN_12:3!3|MId=o010120030032|Strong=7043|Frame=A1:010120030033;|Type=participle_active 7 ְךָ֖ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ Gloss=who].disdains.you|Ref=GEN_12:3!3|MId=o010120030033|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 8 אָאֹ֑ר אָרַר VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 2 conj _ Gloss=I.will.curse|Ref=GEN_12:3!4|MId=o010120030041|Strong=0779|Frame=A0:010120010021;A1:010120030032;|Type=yiqtol 9-10 וְנִבְרְכ֣וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_12:3!5|MId=o010120030051|Strong=2050b 10 נִבְרְכ֣וּ בָּרַךְ VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.will.be.blessed|Ref=GEN_12:3!5|MId=o010120030052|Strong=1288|Frame=A1:010120030081;|Type=qatal 11-12 בְךָ֔ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 ב בְּ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=by|Ref=GEN_12:3!6|MId=o010120030061|Strong=0871a 12 ְךָ֔ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ Gloss=you|Ref=GEN_12:3!6|MId=o010120030062|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 13 כֹּ֖ל כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Gloss=all|Ref=GEN_12:3!7|MId=o010120030071|Strong=3605 14 מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת מִשְׁפָּחָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 13 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.clans|Ref=GEN_12:3!8|MId=o010120030081|Strong=4940 15-16 הָאֲדָמָֽה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 16 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=GEN_12:3!9|MId=o010120030091|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 16 אֲדָמָֽה אֲדָמָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 14 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.earth|Ref=GEN_12:3!9|MId=o010120030092|Strong=0127 17 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 16 punct _ Ref=GEN_12:3!9 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | אֲבָֽרֲכָה *I will bless* | yiqtol · piel | | מְבָרְכֶי *\[those* | | | | מְבָרְכֶי *\[those* | participle active · piel | | ךָ *who\] bless you* | | | | מְקַלֶּל *\[one* | participle active · piel | | ְךָ *who\] disdains you* | | | | אָאֹר *I will curse* | yiqtol · qal | | מְקַלֶּל *\[one* | | | | נִבְרְכוּ *they will be blessed* | qatal · niphal | | מִשְׁפְּחֹת *the clans* | | | 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} וֶאֱבָרֵךְ מְבָרְכָךְ וּמְלַטְטָךְ אֵילוּט וְיִתְבָּרֲכוּן בְּדִילָךְ כֹּל זַרְעֲיַת אַרְעָא 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 I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.315/) **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:GEN:301`. - ← previous: [Genesis 12:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.12.2/) - next →: [Genesis 12:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.12.4/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/12/)