--- title: Genesis 27:23 — And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his broth… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him. Who acts: Jacob, hands. Genesis 27:23 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.27.23/) [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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/27/) / 27:23 # Genesis 27:23 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** Jacob, hands · **What happens:** not discern, be, bless · **To what, where:** Isaac This is Genesis 27:23 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 — Jacob, hands — and what happens in the verse to 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. וְלֹ֣א הִכִּיר֔וֹ כִּֽי־הָי֣וּ יָדָ֗יו כִּידֵ֛י עֵשָׂ֥ו אָחִ֖יו שְׂעִרֹ֑ת וַֽיְבָרְכֵֽהוּ׃ [And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.797/) ## 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:750 # text = וְלֹ֣א הִכִּיר֔וֹ כִּֽי־הָי֣וּ יָדָ֗יו כִּידֵ֛י עֵשָׂ֥ו אָחִ֖יו שְׂעִרֹ֑ת וַֽיְבָרְכֵֽהוּ׃ # verse = GEN.27.23 1-2 וְלֹ֣א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 3 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_27:23!1|MId=o010270230011|Strong=2050b 2 לֹ֣א לֹא ADV _ _ 3 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=GEN_27:23!1|MId=o010270230012|Strong=3808|Type=negative 3-4 הִכִּיר֔וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 הִכִּיר נָכַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he|Ref=GEN_27:23!2|MId=o010270230021|Strong=5234|Frame=AA:010270220041;A0:010270230022;|Type=qatal 4 ֔וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ Gloss=recognized.him|Ref=GEN_27:23!2|MId=o010270230022|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 5 כִּֽי־ כִּי SCONJ _ _ 14 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=GEN_27:23!3|MId=o010270230031|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No 6 הָי֣וּ הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 14 cop _ Gloss=they.were|Ref=GEN_27:23!4|MId=o010270230041|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:010270230051;|Type=qatal 7-8 יָדָ֗יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 יָדָ֗י יָד NOUN _ Number=Dual 14 nsubj _ Gloss=hands|Ref=GEN_27:23!5|MId=o010270230051|Strong=3027 8 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_27:23!5|MId=o010270230052|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 9-10 כִּידֵ֛י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 כִּ כְּ ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=like|Ref=GEN_27:23!6|MId=o010270230061|Strong=3509a 10 ידֵ֛י יָד NOUN _ Number=Dual 14 obl _ Gloss=the.hands|Ref=GEN_27:23!6|MId=o010270230062|Strong=3027 11 עֵשָׂ֥ו עֵשָׂו PROPN _ _ 10 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Esau|Ref=GEN_27:23!7|MId=o010270230071|Strong=6215 12-13 אָחִ֖יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 אָחִ֖י אָח NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 appos _ Gloss=brother|Ref=GEN_27:23!8|MId=o010270230081|Strong=0251 13 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_27:23!8|MId=o010270230082|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 14 שְׂעִרֹ֑ת שָׂעִיר ADJ _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 3 advcl _ Gloss=hairy|Ref=GEN_27:23!9|MId=o010270230091|Strong=8163|Type=adjective 15-17 וַֽיְבָרְכֵֽהוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וַֽ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_27:23!10|MId=o010270230101|Strong=2050b 16 יְבָרְכ בָּרַךְ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 3 conj _ Gloss=he|Ref=GEN_27:23!10|MId=o010270230102|Strong=1288|Frame=A0:010270220041;A1:010270230103;|Type=wayyiqtol 17 ֵֽהוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ Gloss=blessed.him|Ref=GEN_27:23!10|MId=o010270230103|Strong=1930a|Type=pronominal 18 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 17 punct _ Ref=GEN_27:23!10 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **not** הִכִּיר *he* | qatal · hiphil | וֹ *recognized him* | | | | | הָיוּ *they were* | qatal · qal | יָדָי *hands* | | | | | יְבָרְכ *he* | wayyiqtol · piel | | ֵֽהוּ *blessed him* | | | 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} וְלָא אִשְׁתְּמוֹדְעֵהּ אֲרֵי הֲוָאָה יְדוֹהִי כִּידֵי עֵשָׂו אֲחוּהִי שְׂעִירָן (נ''י שַׂעֲרַנְיָן) וּבָרְכֵהּ 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 he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.797/) **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:750`. - ← previous: [Genesis 27:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.22/) - next →: [Genesis 27:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.24/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/27/)