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title: Genesis 24:63 — And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide; and he… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide; and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming. Who acts: Isaac, camels. Genesis 24:63 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 24:63 בְּרֵאשִׁית

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**Who acts:** Isaac, camels · **What happens:** go out, meditate, lift up, see, be, come · **To what, where:** eventide, field, eyes

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This is Genesis 24:63 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 — Isaac, camels — and what happens in the verse to eventide, field, eyes, 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.

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וַיֵּצֵ֥א יִצְחָ֛ק לָשׂ֥וּחַ בַּשָּׂדֶ֖ה לִפְנ֣וֹת עָ֑רֶב וַיִּשָּׂ֤א עֵינָיו֙ וַיַּ֔רְא וְהִנֵּ֥ה גְמַלִּ֖ים בָּאִֽים׃

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[And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide; and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.689/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:654
# text = וַיֵּצֵ֥א יִצְחָ֛ק לָשׂ֥וּחַ בַּשָּׂדֶ֖ה לִפְנ֣וֹת עָ֑רֶב וַיִּשָּׂ֤א עֵינָיו֙ וַיַּ֔רְא וְהִנֵּ֥ה גְמַלִּ֖ים בָּאִֽים׃
# verse = GEN.24.63
1-2	וַיֵּצֵ֥א	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_24:63!1|MId=o010240630011|Strong=2050b
2	יֵּצֵ֥א	יָצָא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.went.out|Ref=GEN_24:63!1|MId=o010240630012|Strong=3318|Frame=A0:010240630021;|Type=wayyiqtol
3	יִצְחָ֛ק	יִצְחָק	PROPN	_	_	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=Isaac|Ref=GEN_24:63!2|MId=o010240630021|Strong=3327
4-5	לָשׂ֥וּחַ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	לָ	לְ	ADP	_	_	5	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_24:63!3|MId=o010240630031|Strong=3807a
5	שׂ֥וּחַ	שׂוּחַ	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	2	advcl	_	Gloss=meditate|Ref=GEN_24:63!3|MId=o010240630032|Strong=7742|Frame=A0:010240630021;|Type=infinitive_construct
6-8	בַּשָּׂדֶ֖ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	8	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=GEN_24:63!4|MId=o010240630041|Strong=0871a
7	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	8	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_24:63!4|MId=o010240630041ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
8	שָּׂדֶ֖ה	שָׂדֶה	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Gloss=field|Ref=GEN_24:63!4|MId=o010240630042|Strong=7704
9-10	לִפְנ֣וֹת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	Gloss=to.[the]|Ref=GEN_24:63!5|MId=o010240630051|Strong=3807a
10	פְנ֣וֹת	פָּנָה	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	2	advcl	_	Gloss=turning|Ref=GEN_24:63!5|MId=o010240630052|Strong=6437|Frame=A0:010240630061;|Type=infinitive_construct
11	עָ֑רֶב	עֶרֶב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Gloss=of.evening|Ref=GEN_24:63!6|MId=o010240630061|Strong=6153
12-13	וַיִּשָּׂ֤א	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	13	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_24:63!7|MId=o010240630071|Strong=2050b
13	יִּשָּׂ֤א	נָשָׂא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=he.lifted.up|Ref=GEN_24:63!7|MId=o010240630072|Strong=5375|Frame=A0:010240630021;A1:010240630081;|Type=wayyiqtol
14-15	עֵינָיו֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
14	עֵינָי	עַיִן	NOUN	_	Number=Dual	13	obj	_	Gloss=eyes|Ref=GEN_24:63!8|MId=o010240630081|Strong=5869
15	ו֙	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_24:63!8|MId=o010240630082|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
16-17	וַיַּ֔רְא	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	17	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_24:63!9|MId=o010240630091|Strong=2050b
17	יַּ֔רְא	רָאָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	13	conj	_	Gloss=he.saw|Ref=GEN_24:63!9|MId=o010240630092|Strong=7200|Frame=A0:010240630021;|Type=wayyiqtol
18-19	וְהִנֵּ֥ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
18	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	21	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_24:63!10|MId=o010240630101|Strong=2050b
19	הִנֵּ֥ה	הִנֵּה	INTJ	_	_	21	discourse	_	Gloss=there!|Ref=GEN_24:63!10|MId=o010240630102|Strong=2009|Type=demonstrative
20	גְמַלִּ֖ים	גָּמָל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	Gloss=camels|Ref=GEN_24:63!11|MId=o010240630111|Strong=1581
21	בָּאִֽים	בּוֹא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur	2	conj	_	Gloss=[were].coming|Ref=GEN_24:63!12|MId=o010240630121|Strong=0935|Frame=A0:010240630111;|Type=participle_active|SpaceAfter=No
22	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	21	punct	_	Ref=GEN_24:63!12
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יֵּצֵא *he went out* | wayyiqtol · qal | יִצְחָק *Isaac* |  |  |  |
| שׂוּחַ *meditate* | infinitive construct · qal | יִצְחָק *Isaac* |  |  |  |
| פְנוֹת *turning* | infinitive construct · qal | עָרֶב *of evening* |  |  |  |
| יִּשָּׂא *he lifted up* | wayyiqtol · qal | יִצְחָק *Isaac* | עֵינָי *eyes* |  |  |
| יַּרְא *he saw* | wayyiqtol · qal | יִצְחָק *Isaac* |  |  |  |
| בָּאִֽים *\[were\] coming* | participle active · qal | גְמַלִּים *camels* |  |  |  |

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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}

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וּנְפַק יִצְחָק לְצַלָּאָה בְחַקְלָא לְמִפְנֵי רַמְשָׁא וּזְקַף עֵינוֹהִי וַחֲזָא וְהָא גַּמְלַיָּא אָתָן

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide; and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.689/)

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**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:654`.

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