--- title: Genesis 20:17 — And Abraham prayed unto God; and God healed Abimelech, and his wife,… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Abraham prayed unto God; and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they bore children. Who acts: Abraham, God, servants. Genesis 20:17 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.20.17/) [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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/20/) / 20:17 # Genesis 20:17 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** Abraham, God, servants · **What happens:** pray, heal, bear · **To what, where:** Abimelech, children This is Genesis 20:17 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, God, servants — and what happens in the verse to Abimelech, children, 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. וַיִּתְפַּלֵּ֥ל אַבְרָהָ֖ם אֶל־הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וַיִּרְפָּ֨א אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֶת־אֲבִימֶ֧לֶךְ וְאֶת־אִשְׁתּ֛וֹ וְאַמְהֹתָ֖יו וַיֵּלֵֽדוּ׃ [And Abraham prayed unto God; and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they bore children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.539/) ## 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:512 # text = וַיִּתְפַּלֵּ֥ל אַבְרָהָ֖ם אֶל־הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וַיִּרְפָּ֨א אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֶת־אֲבִימֶ֧לֶךְ וְאֶת־אִשְׁתּ֛וֹ וְאַמְהֹתָ֖יו וַיֵּלֵֽדוּ׃ # verse = GEN.20.17 1-2 וַיִּתְפַּלֵּ֥ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_20:17!1|MId=o010200170011|Strong=2050b 2 יִּתְפַּלֵּ֥ל פָּלַל VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HITHPAEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.prayed|Ref=GEN_20:17!1|MId=o010200170012|Strong=6419|Frame=A0:010200170021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 אַבְרָהָ֖ם אַבְרָהָם PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Abraham|Ref=GEN_20:17!2|MId=o010200170021|Strong=0085 4 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_20:17!3|MId=o010200170031|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 5-6 הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 6 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=GEN_20:17!4|MId=o010200170041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 6 אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 obl _ Gloss=God|Ref=GEN_20:17!4|MId=o010200170042|Strong=0430 7-8 וַיִּרְפָּ֨א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 8 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_20:17!5|MId=o010200170051|Strong=2050b 8 יִּרְפָּ֨א רָפָא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.healed|Ref=GEN_20:17!5|MId=o010200170052|Strong=7495|Frame=A0:010200170061;A1:010200170081;010200170101;010200170112;|Type=wayyiqtol 9 אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ Gloss=God|Ref=GEN_20:17!6|MId=o010200170061|Strong=0430 10 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=GEN_20:17!7|MId=o010200170071|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 11 אֲבִימֶ֧לֶךְ אֲבִימֶלֶךְ PROPN _ _ 8 obj _ Gloss=Abimelech|Ref=GEN_20:17!8|MId=o010200170081|Strong=0040 12-13 וְאֶת־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_20:17!9|MId=o010200170091|Strong=2050b 13 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=GEN_20:17!9|MId=o010200170092|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker 14-15 אִשְׁתּ֛וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 אִשְׁתּ אִשָּׁה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 11 conj _ Gloss=wife|Ref=GEN_20:17!10|MId=o010200170101|Strong=0802 15 ֛וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_20:17!10|MId=o010200170102|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 16-18 וְאַמְהֹתָ֖יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 17 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_20:17!11|MId=o010200170111|Strong=2050b 17 אַמְהֹתָ֖י אָמָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 14 conj _ Gloss=his.female|Ref=GEN_20:17!11|MId=o010200170112|Strong=0519 18 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ Gloss=slaves|Ref=GEN_20:17!11|MId=o010200170113|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 19-20 וַיֵּלֵֽדוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 20 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_20:17!12|MId=o010200170121|Strong=2050b 20 יֵּלֵֽדוּ יָלַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 8 conj _ Gloss=they.bore.children|Ref=GEN_20:17!12|MId=o010200170122|Strong=3205|Frame=A0:010200170101;010200170112;|Type=wayyiqtol 21 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 20 punct _ Ref=GEN_20:17!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִּתְפַּלֵּל *he prayed* | wayyiqtol · hithpael | אַבְרָהָם *Abraham* | | | | | יִּרְפָּא *he healed* | wayyiqtol · qal | אֱלֹהִים *God* | אֲבִימֶלֶךְ *Abimelech* + אִשְׁתּ *wife* + אַמְהֹתָי *his female* | | | | יֵּלֵֽדוּ *they bore children* | wayyiqtol · qal | אִשְׁתּ *wife* + אַמְהֹתָי *his female* | | | | 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} וְצַלִּי אַבְרָהָם קֳדָם יְיָ וְאַסִּי יְיָ יָת אֲבִימֶלֶךְ וְיָת אִתְּתֵהּ וְאַמְהָתֵהּ וְאִתְרְוָחוּ 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 prayed unto God; and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they bore children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.539/) **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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