--- title: Genesis 25:20 — And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean, of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. Who acts: Isaac. Genesis 25:20 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.25.20/) [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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/25/) / 25:20 # Genesis 25:20 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** Isaac · **What happens:** be, take · **To what, where:** Rebekah, wife This is Genesis 25:20 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 — and what happens in the verse to Rebekah, wife, 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. וַיְהִ֤י יִצְחָק֙ בֶּן־אַרְבָּעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה בְּקַחְתּ֣וֹ אֶת־רִבְקָ֗ה בַּת־בְּתוּאֵל֙ הָֽאֲרַמִּ֔י מִפַּדַּ֖נ אֲרָ֑ם פַּדַּ֖נ אֲרָ֑ם אֲח֛וֹת לָבָ֥ן הָאֲרַמִּ֖י ל֥וֹ לְאִשָּֽׁה׃ [And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean, of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.716/) ## 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:678 # text = וַיְהִ֤י יִצְחָק֙ בֶּן־אַרְבָּעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה בְּקַחְתּ֣וֹ אֶת־רִבְקָ֗ה בַּת־בְּתוּאֵל֙ הָֽאֲרַמִּ֔י מִפַּדַּ֖נ אֲרָ֑ם פַּדַּ֖נ אֲרָ֑ם אֲח֛וֹת לָבָ֥ן הָאֲרַמִּ֖י ל֥וֹ לְאִשָּֽׁה׃ # verse = GEN.25.20 1-2 וַיְהִ֤י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 4 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_25:20!1|MId=o010250200011|Strong=2050b 2 יְהִ֤י הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 4 cop _ Gloss=he.was|Ref=GEN_25:20!1|MId=o010250200012|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:010250200021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 יִצְחָק֙ יִצְחָק PROPN _ _ 4 nsubj _ Gloss=Isaac|Ref=GEN_25:20!2|MId=o010250200021|Strong=3327 4 בֶּן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=a.son|Ref=GEN_25:20!3|MId=o010250200031|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 5 אַרְבָּעִ֣ים אַרְבַּע NUM _ Number=Plur 6 nummod _ Gloss=of.forty|Ref=GEN_25:20!4|MId=o010250200041|Strong=0705|Type=cardinal_number 6 שָׁנָ֔ה שָׁנָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 4 compound:smixut _ Gloss=year[s]|Ref=GEN_25:20!5|MId=o010250200051|Strong=8141 7-9 בְּקַחְתּ֣וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=when|Ref=GEN_25:20!6|MId=o010250200061|Strong=0871a 8 קַחְתּ לָקַח VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 4 advcl _ Gloss=took|Ref=GEN_25:20!6|MId=o010250200062|Strong=3947|Frame=A0:010250200063;A1:010250200081;|Type=infinitive_construct 9 ֣וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ Gloss=he|Ref=GEN_25:20!6|MId=o010250200063|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 10 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=GEN_25:20!7|MId=o010250200071|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 11 רִבְקָ֗ה רִבְקָה PROPN _ _ 8 obj _ Gloss=Rebekah|Ref=GEN_25:20!8|MId=o010250200081|Strong=7259 12 בַּת־ בַּת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 11 appos _ Gloss=the.daughter|Ref=GEN_25:20!9|MId=o010250200091|Strong=1323|SpaceAfter=No 13 בְּתוּאֵל֙ בְּתוּאֵל PROPN _ _ 12 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Bethuel|Ref=GEN_25:20!10|MId=o010250200101|Strong=1328 14-15 הָֽאֲרַמִּ֔י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 הָֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 15 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_25:20!11|MId=o010250200111|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 15 אֲרַמִּ֔י אֲרַמִּי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 appos _ Gloss=Aramean|Ref=GEN_25:20!11|MId=o010250200112|Strong=0761|Type=gentilic 16-17 מִפַּדַּ֖נ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=GEN_25:20!12|MId=o010250200121|Strong=4480 17 פַּדַּ֖נ פַּדָּן PROPN _ _ 13 nmod _ Gloss=Paddan|Ref=GEN_25:20!12|MId=o010250200122 18 אֲרָ֑ם _ PROPN _ _ 17 flat:name _ Ref=GEN_25:20!12 19 פַּדַּ֖נ אֲרָם PROPN _ _ 17 nmod _ Gloss=Aram|Ref=GEN_25:20!13|MId=o010250200131 20 אֲרָ֑ם _ PROPN _ _ 19 flat:name _ Ref=GEN_25:20!13 21 אֲח֛וֹת אָחוֹת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 11 appos _ Gloss=the.sister|Ref=GEN_25:20!14|MId=o010250200141|Strong=0269 22 לָבָ֥ן לָבָן PROPN _ _ 21 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Laban|Ref=GEN_25:20!15|MId=o010250200151|Strong=3837 23-24 הָאֲרַמִּ֖י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 23 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 24 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_25:20!16|MId=o010250200161|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 24 אֲרַמִּ֖י אֲרַמִּי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 22 appos _ Gloss=Aramean|Ref=GEN_25:20!16|MId=o010250200162|Strong=0761|Type=gentilic 25-26 ל֥וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 25 ל לְ ADP _ _ 26 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=GEN_25:20!17|MId=o010250200171|Strong=3807a 26 ֥וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ Gloss=himself|Ref=GEN_25:20!17|MId=o010250200172|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 27-28 לְאִשָּֽׁה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 27 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 28 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_25:20!18|MId=o010250200181|Strong=3807a 28 אִשָּֽׁה אִשָּׁה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 8 obl _ Gloss=a.wife|Ref=GEN_25:20!18|MId=o010250200182|Strong=0802 29 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 28 punct _ Ref=GEN_25:20!18 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יְהִי *he was* | wayyiqtol · qal | יִצְחָק *Isaac* | | | | | קַחְתּ *took* | infinitive construct · qal | וֹ *he* | רִבְקָה *Rebekah* | | | 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} וַהֲוָה יִצְחָק בַּר אַרְבְּעִין שְׁנִין כַּד נְסֵיב יָת רִבְקָה בַּת בְּתוּאֵל אֲרַמָּאָה מִפַּדַּן אֲרָם אֲחָתֵהּ דְלָבָן אֲרַמָּאָה לֵהּ לְאִנְתּוּ 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 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean, of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.716/) **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:678`. - ← previous: [Genesis 25:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.19/) - next →: [Genesis 25:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.21/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/25/)