--- title: Genesis 17:16 — And I will bless her, and moreover I will give thee a son of her; ye… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And I will bless her, and moreover I will give thee a son of her; yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be of her.' Who acts: I, name, kings. 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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 — I, name, kings — and what happens in the verse to name, son, thee, mother, 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. וּבֵרַכְתִּ֣י אֹתָ֔הּ וְגַ֨ם נָתַ֧תִּי מִמֶּ֛נָּה לְךָ֖ בֵּ֑ן וּבֵֽרַכְתִּ֙יהָ֙ וְהָֽיְתָ֣ה לְגוֹיִ֔ם מַלְכֵ֥י עַמִּ֖ים מִמֶּ֥נָּה יִהְיֽוּ׃ [And I will bless her, and moreover I will give thee a son of her; yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be of her.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.429/) ## 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:413 # text = וּבֵרַכְתִּ֣י אֹתָ֔הּ וְגַ֨ם נָתַ֧תִּי מִמֶּ֛נָּה לְךָ֖ בֵּ֑ן וּבֵֽרַכְתִּ֙יהָ֙ וְהָֽיְתָ֣ה לְגוֹיִ֔ם מַלְכֵ֥י עַמִּ֖ים מִמֶּ֥נָּה יִהְיֽוּ׃ # verse = GEN.17.16 1-2 וּבֵרַכְתִּ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_17:16!1|MId=o010170160011|Strong=2050b 2 בֵרַכְתִּ֣י בָּרַךְ VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=1 0 root _ Gloss=I.will.bless|Ref=GEN_17:16!1|MId=o010170160012|Strong=1288|Frame=A0:010170150021;A1:010170160022;|Type=weqatal 3-4 אֹתָ֔הּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 אֹת אֵת ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=|Ref=GEN_17:16!2|MId=o010170160021|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker 4 ָ֔הּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ Gloss=her|Ref=GEN_17:16!2|MId=o010170160022|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 5-6 וְגַ֨ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_17:16!3|MId=o010170160031|Strong=2050b 6 גַ֨ם גַּם ADV _ _ 7 advmod _ Gloss=also|Ref=GEN_17:16!3|MId=o010170160032|Strong=1571|Type=affirmation 7 נָתַ֧תִּי נָתַן VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 2 conj _ Gloss=I.will.give|Ref=GEN_17:16!4|MId=o010170160041|Strong=5414|Frame=A0:010170150021;A1:010170160071;|Type=qatal 8-9 מִמֶּ֛נָּה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 מִמּ מִן ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=GEN_17:16!5|MId=o010170160051|Strong=4480 9 ֶ֛נָּה הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ Gloss=her|Ref=GEN_17:16!5|MId=o010170160052|Strong=5089a|Type=pronominal 10-11 לְךָ֖ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 ל לְ ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_17:16!6|MId=o010170160061|Strong=3807a 11 ְךָ֖ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ Gloss=you|Ref=GEN_17:16!6|MId=o010170160062|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 12 בֵּ֑ן בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 obj _ Gloss=a.son|Ref=GEN_17:16!7|MId=o010170160071|Strong=1121 13-15 וּבֵֽרַכְתִּ֙יהָ֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_17:16!8|MId=o010170160081|Strong=2050b 14 בֵֽרַכְתִּ֙י בָּרַךְ VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=1 2 conj _ Gloss=I|Ref=GEN_17:16!8|MId=o010170160082|Strong=1288|Frame=A0:010170150021;A1:010170160083;|Type=weqatal 15 הָ֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ Gloss=will.bless.her|Ref=GEN_17:16!8|MId=o010170160083|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 16-17 וְהָֽיְתָ֣ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_17:16!9|MId=o010170160091|Strong=2050b 17 הָֽיְתָ֣ה הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 19 cop _ Gloss=she.will.become|Ref=GEN_17:16!9|MId=o010170160092|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:010170150051;|Type=weqatal 18-19 לְגוֹיִ֔ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=(into)|Ref=GEN_17:16!10|MId=o010170160101|Strong=3807a 19 גוֹיִ֔ם גּוֹי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 conj _ Gloss=nations|Ref=GEN_17:16!10|MId=o010170160102|Strong=1471 20 מַלְכֵ֥י מֶלֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ Gloss=kings|Ref=GEN_17:16!11|MId=o010170160111|Strong=4428 21 עַמִּ֖ים עַם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 20 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.peoples|Ref=GEN_17:16!12|MId=o010170160121|Strong=5971 22-23 מִמֶּ֥נָּה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 מִמּ מִן ADP _ _ 23 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=GEN_17:16!13|MId=o010170160131|Strong=4480 23 ֶ֥נָּה הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 parataxis _ Gloss=her|Ref=GEN_17:16!13|MId=o010170160132|Strong=5089a|Type=pronominal 24 יִהְיֽוּ הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 23 cop _ Gloss=they.will.be|Ref=GEN_17:16!14|MId=o010170160141|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:010170160111;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No 25 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 24 punct _ Ref=GEN_17:16!14 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | בֵרַכְתִּי *I will bless* | weqatal · piel | | ָהּ *her* | | | | נָתַתִּי *I will give* | qatal · qal | | בֵּן *a son* | | | | בֵֽרַכְתִּי *I* | weqatal · piel | | הָ *will bless her* | | | | הָֽיְתָה *she will become* | weqatal · qal | | | | | | יִהְיֽוּ *they will be* | yiqtol · qal | מַלְכֵי *kings* | | | | 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 יָתַהּ וְאַף אֶתֵּן מִנַהּ לָךְ בָּר וֶאֱבָרֲכִנַהּ וּתְהֵי לְכִנְשִׁין מַלְכִין דְשַׁלִּיטִין בְעַמְמַיָּא מִנַהּ יְהוֹן 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 her, and moreover I will give thee a son of her; yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be of her.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.429/) **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:413`. - ← previous: [Genesis 17:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.17.15/) - next →: [Genesis 17:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.17.17/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/17/)