--- title: Genesis 25:21 — And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; a… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD let Himself be entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. Who acts: Isaac, wife, LORD, Rebekah. Genesis 25:21 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.25.21/) [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/) / 25:21 # Genesis 25:21 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** Isaac, wife, LORD, Rebekah · **What happens:** entreat, be, let, conceive · **To what, where:** LORD, Isaac This is Genesis 25:21 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, wife, LORD, Rebekah — and what happens in the verse to LORD, Isaac, 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. וַיֶּעְתַּ֨ר יִצְחָ֤ק לַֽיהוָה֙ לְנֹ֣כַח אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ כִּ֥י עֲקָרָ֖ה הִ֑וא וַיֵּעָ֤תֶר לוֹ֙ יְהוָ֔ה וַתַּ֖הַר רִבְקָ֥ה אִשְׁתּֽוֹ׃ [And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD let Himself be entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.717/) ## 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:679 # text = וַיֶּעְתַּ֨ר יִצְחָ֤ק לַֽיהוָה֙ לְנֹ֣כַח אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ כִּ֥י עֲקָרָ֖ה הִ֑וא וַיֵּעָ֤תֶר לוֹ֙ יְהוָ֔ה וַתַּ֖הַר רִבְקָ֥ה אִשְׁתּֽוֹ׃ # verse = GEN.25.21 1-2 וַיֶּעְתַּ֨ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_25:21!1|MId=o010250210011|Strong=2050b 2 יֶּעְתַּ֨ר עָתַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.prayed|Ref=GEN_25:21!1|MId=o010250210012|Strong=6279|Frame=A0:010250210021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 יִצְחָ֤ק יִצְחָק PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Isaac|Ref=GEN_25:21!2|MId=o010250210021|Strong=3327 4-5 לַֽיהוָה֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 לַֽ לְ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_25:21!3|MId=o010250210031|Strong=3807a 5 יהוָה֙ יהוה PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=GEN_25:21!3|MId=o010250210032|Strong=3068 6-7 לְנֹ֣כַח _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_25:21!4|MId=o010250210041|Strong=3807a 7 נֹ֣כַח נֹכַח NOUN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=the.front.of|Ref=GEN_25:21!4|MId=o010250210042|Strong=5227 8-9 אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 אִשְׁתּ אִשָּׁה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=wife|Ref=GEN_25:21!5|MId=o010250210051|Strong=0802 9 ֔וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_25:21!5|MId=o010250210052|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 10 כִּ֥י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 11 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=GEN_25:21!6|MId=o010250210061|Strong=3588 11 עֲקָרָ֖ה עָקָר ADJ _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 advcl _ Gloss=[was].barren|Ref=GEN_25:21!7|MId=o010250210071|Strong=6135|Type=adjective 12 הִ֑וא הִיא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ Gloss=she|Ref=GEN_25:21!8|MId=o010250210081|Strong=1931a|Type=personal 13-14 וַיֵּעָ֤תֶר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_25:21!9|MId=o010250210091|Strong=2050b 14 יֵּעָ֤תֶר עָתַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.was.entreated|Ref=GEN_25:21!9|MId=o010250210092|Strong=6279|Frame=A1:010250210111;|Type=wayyiqtol 15-16 לוֹ֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 ל לְ ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=by|Ref=GEN_25:21!10|MId=o010250210101|Strong=3807a 16 וֹ֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ Gloss=him|Ref=GEN_25:21!10|MId=o010250210102|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 17 יְהוָ֔ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 14 nsubj _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=GEN_25:21!11|MId=o010250210111|Strong=3068 18-19 וַתַּ֖הַר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_25:21!12|MId=o010250210121|Strong=2050b 19 תַּ֖הַר הָרָה VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=she.conceived|Ref=GEN_25:21!12|MId=o010250210122|Strong=2029|Frame=A0:010250210131;|Type=wayyiqtol 20 רִבְקָ֥ה רִבְקָה PROPN _ _ 19 nsubj _ Gloss=Rebekah|Ref=GEN_25:21!13|MId=o010250210131|Strong=7259 21-22 אִשְׁתּֽוֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 אִשְׁתּ אִשָּׁה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 20 appos _ Gloss=wife|Ref=GEN_25:21!14|MId=o010250210141|Strong=0802 22 ֽוֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_25:21!14|MId=o010250210142|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 23 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 22 punct _ Ref=GEN_25:21!14 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֶּעְתַּר *he prayed* | wayyiqtol · qal | יִצְחָק *Isaac* | | | | | יֵּעָתֶר *he was entreated* | wayyiqtol · niphal | | יְהוָה *Yahweh* | | | | תַּהַר *she conceived* | wayyiqtol · qal | 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} וְצַלִּי יִצְחָק קֳדָם יְיָ לָקֳבֵל אִתְּתֵהּ אֲרֵי עֲקָרָה הִיא וְקַבֵּל צְלוֹתֵהּ יְיָ וְעַדִּיאַת רִבְקָה אִתְּתֵהּ 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 entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD let Himself be entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.717/) **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:679`. - ← previous: [Genesis 25:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.20/) - next →: [Genesis 25:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.22/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/25/)