--- title: Genesis 48:2 — And one told Jacob, and said: 'Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto th… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And one told Jacob, and said: 'Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee.' And Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. Who acts: one, son, Israel. Genesis 48:2 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.48.2/) [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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/48/) / 48:2 # Genesis 48:2 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** one, son, Israel · **What happens:** tell, say, come, strengthen, sit · **To what, where:** Jacob, Joseph, bed · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Genesis 48:2 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 — one, son, Israel — and what happens in the verse to Jacob, Joseph, bed, 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. וַיַּגֵּ֣ד לְיַעֲקֹ֔ב וַיֹּ֕אמֶר הִנֵּ֛ה בִּנְךָ֥ יוֹסֵ֖ף בָּ֣א אֵלֶ֑יךָ וַיִּתְחַזֵּק֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב עַל־הַמִּטָּֽה׃ [And one told Jacob, and said: 'Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee.' And Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1577/) ## 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:1453 # text = וַיַּגֵּ֣ד לְיַעֲקֹ֔ב וַיֹּ֕אמֶר הִנֵּ֛ה בִּנְךָ֥ יוֹסֵ֖ף בָּ֣א אֵלֶ֑יךָ וַיִּתְחַזֵּק֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב עַל־הַמִּטָּֽה׃ # verse = GEN.48.2 1-2 וַיַּגֵּ֣ד _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_48:2!1|MId=o010480020011|Strong=2050b 2 יַּגֵּ֣ד נָגַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=someone.told|Ref=GEN_48:2!1|MId=o010480020012|Strong=5046|Frame=A0:;|Type=wayyiqtol 3-4 לְיַעֲקֹ֔ב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_48:2!2|MId=o010480020021|Strong=3807a 4 יַעֲקֹ֔ב יַעֲקֹב PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Jacob|Ref=GEN_48:2!2|MId=o010480020022|Strong=3290 5-6 וַיֹּ֕אמֶר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 6 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_48:2!3|MId=o010480020031|Strong=2050b 6 יֹּ֕אמֶר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.said|Ref=GEN_48:2!3|MId=o010480020032|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:;|Type=wayyiqtol 7 הִנֵּ֛ה הִנֵּה INTJ _ _ 11 discourse _ Gloss=here!|Ref=GEN_48:2!4|MId=o010480020041|Strong=2009|Type=demonstrative 8-9 בִּנְךָ֥ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 בִּנ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Gloss=son|Ref=GEN_48:2!5|MId=o010480020051|Strong=1121 9 ְךָ֥ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=GEN_48:2!5|MId=o010480020052|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 10 יוֹסֵ֖ף יוֹסֵף PROPN _ _ 8 appos _ Gloss=Joseph|Ref=GEN_48:2!6|MId=o010480020061|Strong=3130 11 בָּ֣א בּוֹא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ Gloss=he.has.come|Ref=GEN_48:2!7|MId=o010480020071|Strong=0935|Frame=A0:010480020051;|Type=participle_active 12-13 אֵלֶ֑יךָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 אֵלֶ֑י אֶל ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_48:2!8|MId=o010480020081|Strong=0413 13 ךָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ Gloss=you|Ref=GEN_48:2!8|MId=o010480020082|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 14-15 וַיִּתְחַזֵּק֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 15 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_48:2!9|MId=o010480020091|Strong=2050b 15 יִּתְחַזֵּק֙ חָזַק VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HITHPAEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.strengthened.himself|Ref=GEN_48:2!9|MId=o010480020092|Strong=2388|Frame=A0:010480020101;|Type=wayyiqtol 16 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 15 nsubj _ Gloss=Israel|Ref=GEN_48:2!10|MId=o010480020101|Strong=3478 17-18 וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 18 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_48:2!11|MId=o010480020111|Strong=2050b 18 יֵּ֖שֶׁב יָשַׁב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.sat|Ref=GEN_48:2!11|MId=o010480020112|Strong=3427|Frame=A0:010480020101;|Type=wayyiqtol 19 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 21 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=GEN_48:2!12|MId=o010480020121|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 20-21 הַמִּטָּֽה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 21 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_48:2!13|MId=o010480020131|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 21 מִּטָּֽה מִטָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 18 obl _ Gloss=bed|Ref=GEN_48:2!13|MId=o010480020132|Strong=4296 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=GEN_48:2!13 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יַּגֵּד *someone told* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | | | | | | יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | בָּא *he has come* | participle active · qal | בִּנ *son* | | | | | יִּתְחַזֵּק *he strengthened himself* | wayyiqtol · hithpael | יִשְׂרָאֵל *Israel* | | | | | יֵּשֶׁב *he sat* | wayyiqtol · qal | יִשְׂרָאֵל *Israel* | | | | 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} וְחַוִּי לְיַעֲקֹב וַאֲמַר הָא בְּרָךְ יוֹסֵף אֲתָא לְוָתָךְ וְאִתַּקַף יִשְׂרָאֵל וִיתֵיב עַל עַרְסָא 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 one told Jacob, and said: 'Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee.' And Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1577/) **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:1453`. - ← previous: [Genesis 48:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.1/) - next →: [Genesis 48:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.3/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/48/)