--- title: Genesis 39:4 — And Joseph found favour in his sight, and he ministered unto him. An… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Joseph found favour in his sight, and he ministered unto him. And he appointed him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. Who acts: Joseph. Genesis 39:4 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.39.4/) [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/) / 39:4 # Genesis 39:4 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** Joseph · **What happens:** find, minister, sight, appoint, have, put · **To what, where:** favour, sight, LORD, house, all, hand This is Genesis 39:4 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 — Joseph — and what happens in the verse to favour, sight, LORD, house, all, hand, 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. וַיִּמְצָ֨א יוֹסֵ֥ף חֵ֛ן בְּעֵינָ֖יו וַיְשָׁ֣רֶת אֹת֑וֹ וַיַּפְקִדֵ֙הוּ֙ עַל־בֵּית֔וֹ וְכָל־יֶשׁ־ל֖וֹ נָתַ֥ן בְּיָדֽוֹ׃ [And Joseph found favour in his sight, and he ministered unto him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1251/) [And he appointed him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1252/) ## 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:1153 # text = וַיִּמְצָ֨א יוֹסֵ֥ף חֵ֛ן בְּעֵינָ֖יו וַיְשָׁ֣רֶת אֹת֑וֹ וַיַּפְקִדֵ֙הוּ֙ עַל־בֵּית֔וֹ וְכָל־יֶשׁ־ל֖וֹ נָתַ֥ן בְּיָדֽוֹ׃ # verse = GEN.39.4 1-2 וַיִּמְצָ֨א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_39:4!1|MId=o010390040011|Strong=2050b 2 יִּמְצָ֨א מָצָא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.found|Ref=GEN_39:4!1|MId=o010390040012|Strong=4672|Frame=A0:010390040021;A1:010390040031;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 יוֹסֵ֥ף יוֹסֵף PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Joseph|Ref=GEN_39:4!2|MId=o010390040021|Strong=3130 4 חֵ֛ן חֵן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 obj _ Gloss=favor|Ref=GEN_39:4!3|MId=o010390040031|Strong=2580 5-7 בְּעֵינָ֖יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=GEN_39:4!4|MId=o010390040041|Strong=0871a 6 עֵינָ֖י עַיִן NOUN _ Number=Dual 2 obl _ Gloss=eyes|Ref=GEN_39:4!4|MId=o010390040042|Strong=5869 7 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_39:4!4|MId=o010390040043|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 8-9 וַיְשָׁ֣רֶת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_39:4!5|MId=o010390040051|Strong=2050b 9 יְשָׁ֣רֶת שָׁרַת VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.served|Ref=GEN_39:4!5|MId=o010390040052|Strong=8334|Frame=A0:010390040021;A1:010390040062;|Type=wayyiqtol 10-11 אֹת֑וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 אֹת אֵת ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=|Ref=GEN_39:4!6|MId=o010390040061|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker 11 ֑וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ Gloss=him|Ref=GEN_39:4!6|MId=o010390040062|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 12-14 וַיַּפְקִדֵ֙הוּ֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 13 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_39:4!7|MId=o010390040071|Strong=2050b 13 יַּפְקִד פָּקַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he|Ref=GEN_39:4!7|MId=o010390040072|Strong=6485|Frame=AA:010390030021;A0:010390040073;|Type=wayyiqtol 14 ֵ֙הוּ֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ Gloss=appointed.him|Ref=GEN_39:4!7|MId=o010390040073|Strong=1930a|Type=pronominal 15 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=over|Ref=GEN_39:4!8|MId=o010390040081|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 16-17 בֵּית֔וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 בֵּית בַּיִת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 obl _ Gloss=household|Ref=GEN_39:4!9|MId=o010390040091|Strong=1004 17 ֔וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_39:4!9|MId=o010390040092|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 18-19 וְכָל־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 23 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_39:4!10|MId=o010390040101|Strong=2050b 19 כָל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 23 obj _ Gloss=all|Ref=GEN_39:4!10|MId=o010390040102|Strong=3605 20 יֶשׁ־ יֵשׁ ADV _ _ 19 acl _ Gloss=[that].there.[belonged]|Ref=GEN_39:4!11|MId=o010390040111|Strong=3426|Type=demonstrative|SpaceAfter=No 21-22 ל֖וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 ל לְ ADP _ _ 22 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_39:4!12|MId=o010390040121|Strong=3807a 22 ֖וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ Gloss=him|Ref=GEN_39:4!12|MId=o010390040122|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 23 נָתַ֥ן נָתַן VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.gave|Ref=GEN_39:4!13|MId=o010390040131|Strong=5414|Frame=A0:010390030021;A1:010390040102;|Type=qatal 24-26 בְּיָדֽוֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 24 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 25 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=GEN_39:4!14|MId=o010390040141|Strong=0871a 25 יָד יָד NOUN _ Number=Sing 23 obl _ Gloss=hand|Ref=GEN_39:4!14|MId=o010390040142|Strong=3027 26 ֽוֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_39:4!14|MId=o010390040143|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 27 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 26 punct _ Ref=GEN_39:4!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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִּמְצָא *he found* | wayyiqtol · qal | יוֹסֵף *Joseph* | חֵן *favor* | | | | יְשָׁרֶת *he served* | wayyiqtol · piel | יוֹסֵף *Joseph* | וֹ *him* | | | | יַּפְקִד *he* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | ֵהוּ *appointed him* | | | | | נָתַן *he gave* | qatal · qal | | כָל־ *all* | | | 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} וְאַשְׁכַּח יוֹסֵף רַחֲמִין בְּעֵינוֹהִי וְשַׁמֵּשׁ יָתֵהּ וּמַנְיֵהּ עַל בֵּיתֵהּ וְכָל דִּי אִית לֵהּ מְסַר בִּידֵהּ 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 Joseph found favour in his sight, and he ministered unto him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1251/) 2. [And he appointed him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1252/) **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:1153`. - ← previous: [Genesis 39:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.39.3/) - next →: [Genesis 39:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.39.5/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/39/)