--- title: Genesis 49:3 — Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the first-fruits of my… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the first-fruits of my strength; the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power. Genesis 49:3 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.49.3/) [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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/49/) / 49:3 # Genesis 49:3 בְּרֵאשִׁית **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** first born This is Genesis 49:3 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: what happens in the verse to first born, 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. רְאוּבֵן֙ בְּכֹ֣רִי אַ֔תָּה כֹּחִ֖י וְרֵאשִׁ֣ית אוֹנִ֑י יֶ֥תֶר שְׂאֵ֖ת וְיֶ֥תֶר עָֽז׃ [Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the first-fruits of my strength; the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1601/) ## 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:1476 # text = רְאוּבֵן֙ בְּכֹ֣רִי אַ֔תָּה כֹּחִ֖י וְרֵאשִׁ֣ית אוֹנִ֑י יֶ֥תֶר שְׂאֵ֖ת וְיֶ֥תֶר עָֽז׃ # verse = GEN.49.3 1 רְאוּבֵן֙ רְאוּבֵן PROPN _ _ 2 dislocated _ Gloss=O.Reuben|Ref=GEN_49:3!1|MId=o010490030011|Strong=7205 2-3 בְּכֹ֣רִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 בְּכֹ֣ר בְּכֹר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=firstborn|Ref=GEN_49:3!2|MId=o010490030021|Strong=1060 3 ִי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ Gloss=[are].my|Ref=GEN_49:3!2|MId=o010490030022|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 4 אַ֔תָּה אַתָּה PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ Gloss=you|Ref=GEN_49:3!3|MId=o010490030031|Strong=0859|Type=personal 5-6 כֹּחִ֖י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 כֹּח כֹּחַ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Gloss=strength|Ref=GEN_49:3!4|MId=o010490030041|Strong=3581 6 ִ֖י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=GEN_49:3!4|MId=o010490030042|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 7-8 וְרֵאשִׁ֣ית _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 8 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_49:3!5|MId=o010490030051|Strong=2050b 8 רֵאשִׁ֣ית רֵאשִׁית NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 5 conj _ Gloss=the.beginning|Ref=GEN_49:3!5|MId=o010490030052|Strong=7225 9-10 אוֹנִ֑י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 אוֹנ אוֹן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 compound:smixut _ Gloss=my.generative.power|Ref=GEN_49:3!6|MId=o010490030061|Strong=0202 10 ִ֑י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=GEN_49:3!6|MId=o010490030062|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 11 יֶ֥תֶר יֶתֶר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Gloss=excellence|Ref=GEN_49:3!7|MId=o010490030071|Strong=3499 12 שְׂאֵ֖ת שְׂאֵת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 11 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.dignity|Ref=GEN_49:3!8|MId=o010490030081|Strong=7613 13-14 וְיֶ֥תֶר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_49:3!9|MId=o010490030091|Strong=2050b 14 יֶ֥תֶר יֶתֶר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 conj _ Gloss=excellence|Ref=GEN_49:3!9|MId=o010490030092|Strong=3499 15 עָֽז עַז NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 14 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.power|Ref=GEN_49:3!10|MId=o010490030101|Strong=5794|SpaceAfter=No 16 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 15 punct _ Ref=GEN_49:3!10 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no MACULA marks no verb frame in this verse. ## Targum Onkelos {#onkelos} רְאוּבֵן בּוּכְרִי אַתְּ חֵילִי וְרֵישׁ תָּקְפִּי לָךְ הֲוָה חָזֵי לְמִסַּב תְּלָתָא חוּלָקִין בְּכֵירוּתָא כְּהֻנְתָּא וּמַלְכוּתָא 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. [Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the first-fruits of my strength; the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1601/) **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:1476`. - ← previous: [Genesis 49:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.2/) - next →: [Genesis 49:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.4/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/49/)