--- title: Genesis 38:27 — And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb. Who acts: child, twins, harlot. Genesis 38:27 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.38.27/) [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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/38/) / 38:27 # Genesis 38:27 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** child, twins, harlot · **What happens:** come, pass, be, travail · **To what, where:** womb This is Genesis 38:27 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 — child, twins, harlot — and what happens in the verse to womb, 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. וַיְהִ֖י בְּעֵ֣ת לִדְתָּ֑הּ וְהִנֵּ֥ה תְאוֹמִ֖ים בְּבִטְנָֽהּ׃ [And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1244/) ## 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:1146 # text = וַיְהִ֖י בְּעֵ֣ת לִדְתָּ֑הּ וְהִנֵּ֥ה תְאוֹמִ֖ים בְּבִטְנָֽהּ׃ # verse = GEN.38.27 1-2 וַיְהִ֖י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_38:27!1|MId=o010380270011|Strong=2050b 2 יְהִ֖י הָיָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=it.was|Ref=GEN_38:27!1|MId=o010380270012|Strong=1961|Type=wayyiqtol 3-4 בְּעֵ֣ת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=at|Ref=GEN_38:27!2|MId=o010380270021|Strong=0871a 4 עֵ֣ת עֵת NOUN _ Number=Sing 2 obl _ Gloss=the.time|Ref=GEN_38:27!2|MId=o010380270022|Strong=6256 5-6 לִדְתָּ֑הּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 לִדְתּ יָלַד VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 4 acl _ Gloss=she|Ref=GEN_38:27!3|MId=o010380270031|Strong=3205|Frame=A0:010380270032;|Type=infinitive_construct 6 ָ֑הּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ Gloss=gave.birth|Ref=GEN_38:27!3|MId=o010380270032|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 7-8 וְהִנֵּ֥ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 11 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_38:27!4|MId=o010380270041|Strong=2050b 8 הִנֵּ֥ה הִנֵּה INTJ _ _ 11 discourse _ Gloss=there!|Ref=GEN_38:27!4|MId=o010380270042|Strong=2009|Type=demonstrative 9 תְאוֹמִ֖ים תֹּואֲמִם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ Gloss=twins|Ref=GEN_38:27!5|MId=o010380270051|Strong=8380 10-12 בְּבִטְנָֽהּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=[were].in|Ref=GEN_38:27!6|MId=o010380270061|Strong=0871a 11 בִטְנ בֶּטֶן NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 conj _ Gloss=womb|Ref=GEN_38:27!6|MId=o010380270062|Strong=0990 12 ָֽהּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Gloss=her|Ref=GEN_38:27!6|MId=o010380270063|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 13 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 12 punct _ Ref=GEN_38:27!6 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | לִדְתּ *she* | infinitive construct · qal | ָהּ *gave birth* | | | | 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 בְּעִדַּן דְּמֵילְדַהּ וְהָא תְיוֹמִין בִּמְעָהָא 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 it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1244/) **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:1146`. - ← previous: [Genesis 38:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.26/) - next →: [Genesis 38:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.28/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/38/)