--- title: Genesis 18:6 — And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.' Who acts: Abraham. Genesis 18:6 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.18.6/) [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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/18/) / 18:6 # Genesis 18:6 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** Abraham · **What happens:** hasten, say, make, knead, measure · **To what, where:** tent, three measures, meal, cakes, fine meal · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Genesis 18:6 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 — Abraham — and what happens in the verse to tent, three measures, meal, cakes, fine meal, 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. וַיְמַהֵ֧ר אַבְרָהָ֛ם הָאֹ֖הֱלָה אֶל־שָׂרָ֑ה וַיֹּ֗אמֶר מַהֲרִ֞י שְׁלֹ֤שׁ סְאִים֙ קֶ֣מַח סֹ֔לֶת ל֖וּשִׁי וַעֲשִׂ֥י עֻגֽוֹת׃ [And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.446/) ## 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:430 # text = וַיְמַהֵ֧ר אַבְרָהָ֛ם הָאֹ֖הֱלָה אֶל־שָׂרָ֑ה וַיֹּ֗אמֶר מַהֲרִ֞י שְׁלֹ֤שׁ סְאִים֙ קֶ֣מַח סֹ֔לֶת ל֖וּשִׁי וַעֲשִׂ֥י עֻגֽוֹת׃ # verse = GEN.18.6 1-2 וַיְמַהֵ֧ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_18:6!1|MId=o010180060011|Strong=2050b 2 יְמַהֵ֧ר מָהַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.hurried|Ref=GEN_18:6!1|MId=o010180060012|Strong=4116|Frame=A0:010180060021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 אַבְרָהָ֛ם אַבְרָהָם PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Abraham|Ref=GEN_18:6!2|MId=o010180060021|Strong=0085 4-6 הָאֹ֖הֱלָה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 5 det _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_18:6!3|MId=o010180060031|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 5 אֹ֖הֱל אֹהֶל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 obl _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_18:6!3|MId=o010180060032|Strong=0168 6 ָה ה X _ _ 5 nmod _ Gloss=tent|Ref=GEN_18:6!3|MId=o010180060033|Strong=1886c|Type=directional_he 7 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_18:6!4|MId=o010180060041|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 8 שָׂרָ֑ה שָׂרָה PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Sarah|Ref=GEN_18:6!5|MId=o010180060051|Strong=8283 9-10 וַיֹּ֗אמֶר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_18:6!6|MId=o010180060061|Strong=2050b 10 יֹּ֗אמֶר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.said|Ref=GEN_18:6!6|MId=o010180060062|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:010180060021;|Type=wayyiqtol 11 מַהֲרִ֞י מָהַר VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=2 10 ccomp _ Gloss=bring.quickly|Ref=GEN_18:6!7|MId=o010180060071|Strong=4116|Frame=A0:010180060051;|Type=imperative 12 שְׁלֹ֤שׁ שָׁלֹשׁ NUM _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 13 nummod _ Gloss=three|Ref=GEN_18:6!8|MId=o010180060081|Strong=7969|Type=cardinal_number 13 סְאִים֙ סְאָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 16 obj _ Gloss=seahs|Ref=GEN_18:6!9|MId=o010180060091|Strong=5429 14 קֶ֣מַח קֶמַח NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 appos _ Gloss=flour|Ref=GEN_18:6!10|MId=o010180060101|Strong=7058 15 סֹ֔לֶת סֹלֶת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 14 appos _ Gloss=fine.flour|Ref=GEN_18:6!11|MId=o010180060111|Strong=5560 16 ל֖וּשִׁי לוּשׁ VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 11 parataxis _ Gloss=knead.[it]|Ref=GEN_18:6!12|MId=o010180060121|Strong=3888|Frame=A0:010180060051;A1:010180060091;|Type=imperative 17-18 וַעֲשִׂ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 18 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_18:6!13|MId=o010180060131|Strong=2050b 18 עֲשִׂ֥י עָשָׂה VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 11 conj _ Gloss=make|Ref=GEN_18:6!13|MId=o010180060132|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:010180060051;A1:010180060141;|Type=imperative 19 עֻגֽוֹת עֻגָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 18 obj _ Gloss=bread.cakes|Ref=GEN_18:6!14|MId=o010180060141|Strong=5692|SpaceAfter=No 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=GEN_18:6!14 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יְמַהֵר *he hurried* | wayyiqtol · piel | אַבְרָהָם *Abraham* | | | | | יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | אַבְרָהָם *Abraham* | | | | | מַהֲרִי *bring quickly* | imperative · piel | שָׂרָה *Sarah* | | | | | לוּשִׁי *knead \[it\]* | imperative · qal | שָׂרָה *Sarah* | סְאִים *seahs* | | | | עֲשִׂי *make* | imperative · qal | שָׂרָה *Sarah* | עֻגֽוֹת *bread cakes* | | | 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} וְאוֹחִי אַבְרָהָם לְמַשְׁכְּנָא לְוַת שָׂרָה וַאֲמַר אוֹחָא תְּלָת סְאִין קִמְחָא דְּסָלְתָּא לוּשִׁי וְעִבִידִי גְּרִיצָן 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 Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.446/) **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:430`. - ← previous: [Genesis 18:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.5/) - next →: [Genesis 18:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.7/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/18/)