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title: Genesis 42:15 — Hereby ye shall be proved, as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: Hereby ye shall be proved, as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. Who acts: Pharaoh, ye, youngest brother. Genesis 42:15 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 42:15 בְּרֵאשִׁית

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**Who acts:** Pharaoh, ye, youngest brother · **What happens:** prove, live, not go, come · **To what, where:** ye

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This is Genesis 42:15 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 — Pharaoh, ye, youngest brother — and what happens in the verse to ye, 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.

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בְּזֹ֖את תִּבָּחֵ֑נוּ חֵ֤י פַרְעֹה֙ אִם־תֵּצְא֣וּ מִזֶּ֔ה כִּ֧י אִם־בְּב֛וֹא אֲחִיכֶ֥ם הַקָּטֹ֖ן הֵֽנָּה׃

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[Hereby ye shall be proved, as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1376/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:1267
# text = בְּזֹ֖את תִּבָּחֵ֑נוּ חֵ֤י פַרְעֹה֙ אִם־תֵּצְא֣וּ מִזֶּ֔ה כִּ֧י אִם־בְּב֛וֹא אֲחִיכֶ֥ם הַקָּטֹ֖ן הֵֽנָּה׃
# verse = GEN.42.15
1-2	בְּזֹ֖את	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	2	case	_	Gloss=by|Ref=GEN_42:15!1|MId=o010420150011|Strong=0871a
2	זֹ֖את	זֹאת	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	Gloss=this|Ref=GEN_42:15!1|MId=o010420150012|Strong=2063|Type=demonstrative
3	תִּבָּחֵ֑נוּ	בָּחַן	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Plur|Person=2	0	root	_	Gloss=you.will.be.tested|Ref=GEN_42:15!2|MId=o010420150021|Strong=0974|Frame=A1:010420080041;|Type=yiqtol
4	חֵ֤י	חַי	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Gloss=[by].the.life|Ref=GEN_42:15!3|MId=o010420150031|Strong=2416|Type=adjective
5	פַרְעֹה֙	פַּרְעֹה	PROPN	_	_	4	nsubj	_	Gloss=of.Pharaoh|Ref=GEN_42:15!4|MId=o010420150041|Strong=6547
6	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	_	7	mark	_	Gloss=if|Ref=GEN_42:15!5|MId=o010420150051|Strong=0518|SpaceAfter=No
7	תֵּצְא֣וּ	יָצָא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=2	3	parataxis	_	Gloss=you.will.go.out|Ref=GEN_42:15!6|MId=o010420150061|Strong=3318|Frame=A0:010420080041;|Type=yiqtol
8-9	מִזֶּ֔ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=GEN_42:15!7|MId=o010420150071|Strong=4480
9	זֶּ֔ה	זֶה	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	Gloss=here|Ref=GEN_42:15!7|MId=o010420150072|Strong=2088|Type=demonstrative
10	כִּ֧י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	ExtPos=SCONJ	13	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=GEN_42:15!8|MId=o010420150081|Strong=3588
11	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	_	10	fixed	_	Gloss=(if)|Ref=GEN_42:15!9|MId=o010420150091|Strong=0518|SpaceAfter=No
12-13	בְּב֛וֹא	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	13	case	_	Gloss=when|Ref=GEN_42:15!10|MId=o010420150101|Strong=0871a
13	ב֛וֹא	בּוֹא	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	7	parataxis	_	Gloss=comes|Ref=GEN_42:15!10|MId=o010420150102|Strong=0935|Frame=A0:010420150111;|Type=infinitive_construct
14-15	אֲחִיכֶ֥ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
14	אֲחִי	אָח	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Gloss=brother|Ref=GEN_42:15!11|MId=o010420150111|Strong=0251
15	כֶ֥ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=your|Ref=GEN_42:15!11|MId=o010420150112|Strong=3641b|Type=pronominal
16-17	הַקָּטֹ֖ן	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	17	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=GEN_42:15!12|MId=o010420150121|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
17	קָּטֹ֖ן	קָטֹן	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	14	amod	_	Gloss=young|Ref=GEN_42:15!12|MId=o010420150122|Strong=6996a|Type=adjective
18	הֵֽנָּה	הֵנָּה	ADV	_	_	13	advmod	_	Gloss=here|Ref=GEN_42:15!13|MId=o010420150131|Strong=2008|SpaceAfter=No
19	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	18	punct	_	Ref=GEN_42:15!13
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no
- indirect: yes

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| תִּבָּחֵנוּ *you will be tested* | yiqtol · niphal |  |  |  |  |
| תֵּצְאוּ *you will go out* | yiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |
| בוֹא *comes* | infinitive construct · qal | אֲחִי *brother* |  |  |  |

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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}

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בְּדָא תִּתְבַּחֲרוּן חֵי פַרְעֹה אִם תִּפְקוּן מִכָּא אֶלָּהֵין בְּמֵתֵי אֲחוּכוֹן זְעֵירָא הָכָא

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [Hereby ye shall be proved, as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1376/)

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**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:1267`.

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