--- title: Genesis 37:3 — Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was t… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colours. Who acts: Israel, Joseph. Genesis 37:3 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.37.3/) [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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/37/) / 37:3 # Genesis 37:3 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** Israel, Joseph · **What happens:** love, be, make · **To what, where:** Joseph, son, coat, Israel This is Genesis 37:3 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 — Israel, Joseph — and what happens in the verse to Joseph, son, coat, Israel, 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. וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אָהַ֤ב אֶת־יוֹסֵף֙ מִכָּל־בָּנָ֔יו כִּֽי־בֶן־זְקֻנִ֥ים ה֖וּא ל֑וֹ וְעָ֥שָׂה ל֖וֹ כְּתֹ֥נֶת פַּסִּֽים׃ [Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colours.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1178/) ## 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:1086 # text = וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אָהַ֤ב אֶת־יוֹסֵף֙ מִכָּל־בָּנָ֔יו כִּֽי־בֶן־זְקֻנִ֥ים ה֖וּא ל֑וֹ וְעָ֥שָׂה ל֖וֹ כְּתֹ֥נֶת פַּסִּֽים׃ # verse = GEN.37.3 1-2 וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 3 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_37:3!1|MId=o010370030011|Strong=2050b 2 יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 3 nsubj _ Gloss=Israel|Ref=GEN_37:3!1|MId=o010370030012|Strong=3478 3 אָהַ֤ב אָהֵב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.loved|Ref=GEN_37:3!2|MId=o010370030021|Strong=0157|Frame=A0:010370030012;A1:010370030041;|Type=qatal 4 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=GEN_37:3!3|MId=o010370030031|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 5 יוֹסֵף֙ יוֹסֵף PROPN _ _ 3 obj _ Gloss=Joseph|Ref=GEN_37:3!4|MId=o010370030041|Strong=3130 6-7 מִכָּל־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=more|Ref=GEN_37:3!5|MId=o010370030051|Strong=4480 7 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 obl _ Gloss=than.all|Ref=GEN_37:3!5|MId=o010370030052|Strong=3605 8-9 בָּנָ֔יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 בָּנָ֔י בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=sons|Ref=GEN_37:3!6|MId=o010370030061|Strong=1121 9 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_37:3!6|MId=o010370030062|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 10 כִּֽי־ כִּי SCONJ _ _ 11 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=GEN_37:3!7|MId=o010370030071|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No 11 בֶן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 advcl _ Gloss=[was].a.son|Ref=GEN_37:3!8|MId=o010370030081|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 12 זְקֻנִ֥ים זְקֻנִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 11 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.old.age(s)|Ref=GEN_37:3!9|MId=o010370030091|Strong=2208 13 ה֖וּא הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ Gloss=he|Ref=GEN_37:3!10|MId=o010370030101|Strong=1931|Type=personal 14-15 ל֑וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 ל לְ ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=GEN_37:3!11|MId=o010370030111|Strong=3807a 15 ֑וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ Gloss=him|Ref=GEN_37:3!11|MId=o010370030112|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 16-17 וְעָ֥שָׂה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 17 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_37:3!12|MId=o010370030121|Strong=2050b 17 עָ֥שָׂה עָשָׂה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 3 conj _ Gloss=he.made|Ref=GEN_37:3!12|MId=o010370030122|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:010370030012;A1:010370030141;|Type=qatal 18-19 ל֖וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 ל לְ ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=GEN_37:3!13|MId=o010370030131|Strong=3807a 19 ֖וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ Gloss=him|Ref=GEN_37:3!13|MId=o010370030132|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 20 כְּתֹ֥נֶת כֻּתֹּנֶת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 17 obj _ Gloss=a.long.garment|Ref=GEN_37:3!14|MId=o010370030141|Strong=3801 21 פַּסִּֽים פַּס NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 20 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.palms.and.soles|Ref=GEN_37:3!15|MId=o010370030151|Strong=6446|SpaceAfter=No 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=GEN_37:3!15 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | אָהַב *he loved* | qatal · qal | יִשְׂרָאֵל *Israel* | יוֹסֵף *Joseph* | | | | עָשָׂה *he made* | qatal · qal | יִשְׂרָאֵל *Israel* | כְּתֹנֶת *a long garment* | | | 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} וְיִשְׂרָאֵל רְחֵם יָת יוֹסֵף מִכָּל בְּנוֹהִי אֲרֵי בַר חַכִּים הוּא לֵהּ וַעֲבַד לֵהּ כִּתּוּנָא דְפַסֵי 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. [Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colours.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1178/) **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:1086`. - ← previous: [Genesis 37:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.2/) - next →: [Genesis 37:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.4/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/37/)