--- title: Genesis 29:12 — And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son; and she ran and told her father. Who acts: Jacob, Rachel. Genesis 29:12 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.29.12/) [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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/29/) / 29:12 # Genesis 29:12 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** Jacob, Rachel · **What happens:** tell, be, run · **To what, where:** Rachel, brother, son, father · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Genesis 29:12 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, Rachel — and what happens in the verse to Rachel, brother, son, father, 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. וַיַּגֵּ֨ד יַעֲקֹ֜ב לְרָחֵ֗ל כִּ֣י אֲחִ֤י אָבִ֙יהָ֙ ה֔וּא וְכִ֥י בֶן־רִבְקָ֖ה ה֑וּא וַתָּ֖רָץ וַתַּגֵּ֥ד לְאָבִֽיהָ׃ [And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son; and she ran and told her father.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.862/) ## 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:807 # text = וַיַּגֵּ֨ד יַעֲקֹ֜ב לְרָחֵ֗ל כִּ֣י אֲחִ֤י אָבִ֙יהָ֙ ה֔וּא וְכִ֥י בֶן־רִבְקָ֖ה ה֑וּא וַתָּ֖רָץ וַתַּגֵּ֥ד לְאָבִֽיהָ׃ # verse = GEN.29.12 1-2 וַיַּגֵּ֨ד _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_29:12!1|MId=o010290120011|Strong=2050b 2 יַּגֵּ֨ד נָגַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.told|Ref=GEN_29:12!1|MId=o010290120012|Strong=5046|Frame=AA:010290120021;A0:010290120051;010290120091;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 יַעֲקֹ֜ב יַעֲקֹב PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Jacob|Ref=GEN_29:12!2|MId=o010290120021|Strong=3290 4-5 לְרָחֵ֗ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_29:12!3|MId=o010290120031|Strong=3807a 5 רָחֵ֗ל רָחֵל PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Rachel|Ref=GEN_29:12!3|MId=o010290120032|Strong=7354 6 כִּ֣י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 7 mark _ Gloss=(dm).that|Ref=GEN_29:12!4|MId=o010290120041|Strong=3588 7 אֲחִ֤י אָח NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ Gloss=[was].(the).relative|Ref=GEN_29:12!5|MId=o010290120051|Strong=0251 8-9 אָבִ֙יהָ֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 אָבִ֙י אָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=her.father|Ref=GEN_29:12!6|MId=o010290120061|Strong=0001 9 הָ֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Gloss=her|Ref=GEN_29:12!6|MId=o010290120062|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 10 ה֔וּא הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ Gloss=he|Ref=GEN_29:12!7|MId=o010290120071|Strong=1931|Type=personal 11-12 וְכִ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 13 cc _ Gloss=and.(dm)|Ref=GEN_29:12!8|MId=o010290120081|Strong=2050b 12 כִ֥י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 13 mark _ Gloss=that|Ref=GEN_29:12!8|MId=o010290120082|Strong=3588 13 בֶן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 conj _ Gloss=[was].the.son|Ref=GEN_29:12!9|MId=o010290120091|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 14 רִבְקָ֖ה רִבְקָה PROPN _ _ 13 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Rebekah|Ref=GEN_29:12!10|MId=o010290120101|Strong=7259 15 ה֑וּא הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ Gloss=he|Ref=GEN_29:12!11|MId=o010290120111|Strong=1931|Type=personal 16-17 וַתָּ֖רָץ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 17 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_29:12!12|MId=o010290120121|Strong=2050b 17 תָּ֖רָץ רוּץ VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=she.ran|Ref=GEN_29:12!12|MId=o010290120122|Strong=7323|Frame=A0:010290120032;|Type=wayyiqtol 18-19 וַתַּגֵּ֥ד _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_29:12!13|MId=o010290120131|Strong=2050b 19 תַּגֵּ֥ד נָגַד VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=she.told|Ref=GEN_29:12!13|MId=o010290120132|Strong=5046|Frame=A0:010290120032;|Type=wayyiqtol 20-22 לְאָבִֽיהָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 21 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_29:12!14|MId=o010290120141|Strong=3807a 21 אָבִֽי אָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 19 obl _ Gloss=father|Ref=GEN_29:12!14|MId=o010290120142|Strong=0001 22 הָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ Gloss=her|Ref=GEN_29:12!14|MId=o010290120143|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 23 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 22 punct _ Ref=GEN_29:12!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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יַּגֵּד *he told* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | אֲחִי *\[was\] (the) relative* + בֶן־ *\[was\] the son* | | | יַעֲקֹב *Jacob* | | תָּרָץ *she ran* | wayyiqtol · qal | רָחֵל *Rachel* | | | | | תַּגֵּד *she told* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | רָחֵל *Rachel* | | | | 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} וְחַוִּי יַעֲקֹב לְרָחֵל אֲרֵי בַר אֲחַת אָבוּהָא הוּא וַאֲרֵי בַר רִבְקָה הוּא וּרְהָטַת וְחַוִּיאַת לְאָבוּהָא 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 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son; and she ran and told her father.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.862/) **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:807`. - ← previous: [Genesis 29:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.29.11/) - next →: [Genesis 29:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.29.13/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/29/)