--- title: Genesis 39:21 — But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed kindness unto him, and gave… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed kindness unto him, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. Who acts: LORD. Genesis 39:21 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.39.21/) [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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/39/) / 39:21 # Genesis 39:21 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** be, show, give, sight · **To what, where:** kindness, favour, Joseph, sight, keeper This is Genesis 39:21 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 — LORD — and what happens in the verse to kindness, favour, Joseph, sight, keeper, 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. וַיְהִ֤י יְהוָה֙ אֶת־יוֹסֵ֔ף וַיֵּ֥ט אֵלָ֖יו חָ֑סֶד וַיִּתֵּ֣ן חִנּ֔וֹ בְּעֵינֵ֖י שַׂ֥ר בֵּית־הַסֹּֽהַר׃ [But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed kindness unto him, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1271/) ## 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:1170 # text = וַיְהִ֤י יְהוָה֙ אֶת־יוֹסֵ֔ף וַיֵּ֥ט אֵלָ֖יו חָ֑סֶד וַיִּתֵּ֣ן חִנּ֔וֹ בְּעֵינֵ֖י שַׂ֥ר בֵּית־הַסֹּֽהַר׃ # verse = GEN.39.21 1-2 וַיְהִ֤י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_39:21!1|MId=o010390210011|Strong=2050b 2 יְהִ֤י הָיָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.was|Ref=GEN_39:21!1|MId=o010390210012|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:010390210021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 יְהוָה֙ יהוה PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=GEN_39:21!2|MId=o010390210021|Strong=3068 4 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=with|Ref=GEN_39:21!3|MId=o010390210031|Strong=0854|SpaceAfter=No 5 יוֹסֵ֔ף יוֹסֵף PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Joseph|Ref=GEN_39:21!4|MId=o010390210041|Strong=3130 6-7 וַיֵּ֥ט _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_39:21!5|MId=o010390210051|Strong=2050b 7 יֵּ֥ט נָטָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.extended|Ref=GEN_39:21!5|MId=o010390210052|Strong=5186|Frame=A0:010390210021;A1:010390210071;|Type=wayyiqtol 8-9 אֵלָ֖יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 אֵלָ֖י אֶל ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_39:21!6|MId=o010390210061|Strong=0413 9 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ Gloss=him|Ref=GEN_39:21!6|MId=o010390210062|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 10 חָ֑סֶד חֶסֶד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 obj _ Gloss=covenant.loyalty|Ref=GEN_39:21!7|MId=o010390210071|Strong=2617 11-12 וַיִּתֵּ֣ן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 12 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_39:21!8|MId=o010390210081|Strong=2050b 12 יִּתֵּ֣ן נָתַן VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.gave|Ref=GEN_39:21!8|MId=o010390210082|Strong=5414|Frame=A0:010390210021;A1:010390210091;|Type=wayyiqtol 13-14 חִנּ֔וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 חִנּ חֵן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 12 obj _ Gloss=favor|Ref=GEN_39:21!9|MId=o010390210091|Strong=2580 14 ֔וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_39:21!9|MId=o010390210092|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 15-16 בְּעֵינֵ֖י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=GEN_39:21!10|MId=o010390210101|Strong=0871a 16 עֵינֵ֖י עַיִן NOUN _ Number=Dual 12 obl _ Gloss=the.eyes|Ref=GEN_39:21!10|MId=o010390210102|Strong=5869 17 שַׂ֥ר שַׂר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.the.commander|Ref=GEN_39:21!11|MId=o010390210111|Strong=8269 18 בֵּית־ בַּיִת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 17 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.the.house|Ref=GEN_39:21!12|MId=o010390210121|Strong=1004|SpaceAfter=No 19-20 הַסֹּֽהַר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 20 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=GEN_39:21!13|MId=o010390210131|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 20 סֹּֽהַר סֹהַר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.prison|Ref=GEN_39:21!13|MId=o010390210132|Strong=5470 21 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 20 punct _ Ref=GEN_39:21!13 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יְהִי *he was* | wayyiqtol · qal | יְהוָה *Yahweh* | | | | | יֵּט *he extended* | wayyiqtol · qal | יְהוָה *Yahweh* | חָסֶד *covenant loyalty* | | | | יִּתֵּן *he gave* | wayyiqtol · qal | יְהוָה *Yahweh* | חִנּ *favor* | | | 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 מֵימְרָא דַּיְיָ בְּסַעְדֵּהּ דְּיוֹסֵף וּנְגַד לֵהּ חִסְדָּא וִיהָבֵהּ לְרַחֲמִין בְּעֵינֵי רַב בֵּית אֲסִירֵי 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. [But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed kindness unto him, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1271/) **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:1170`. - ← previous: [Genesis 39:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.39.20/) - next →: [Genesis 39:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.39.22/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/39/)