--- title: Genesis 50:23 — And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the child… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees. Who acts: Joseph. Genesis 50:23 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.50.23/) [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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/50/) / 50:23 # Genesis 50:23 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** Joseph · **What happens:** see, bear · **To what, where:** children This is Genesis 50:23 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 children, 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. וַיַּ֤רְא יוֹסֵף֙ לְאֶפְרַ֔יִם בְּנֵ֖י שִׁלֵּשִׁ֑ים גַּ֗ם בְּנֵ֤י מָכִיר֙ בֶּן־מְנַשֶּׁ֔ה יֻלְּד֖וּ עַל־בִּרְכֵּ֥י יוֹסֵֽף׃ [And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1659/) ## 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:1529 # text = וַיַּ֤רְא יוֹסֵף֙ לְאֶפְרַ֔יִם בְּנֵ֖י שִׁלֵּשִׁ֑ים גַּ֗ם בְּנֵ֤י מָכִיר֙ בֶּן־מְנַשֶּׁ֔ה יֻלְּד֖וּ עַל־בִּרְכֵּ֥י יוֹסֵֽף׃ # verse = GEN.50.23 1-2 וַיַּ֤רְא _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_50:23!1|MId=o010500230011|Strong=2050b 2 יַּ֤רְא רָאָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.saw|Ref=GEN_50:23!1|MId=o010500230012|Strong=7200|Frame=A0:010500230021;A1:010500230041;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 יוֹסֵף֙ יוֹסֵף PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Joseph|Ref=GEN_50:23!2|MId=o010500230021|Strong=3130 4-5 לְאֶפְרַ֔יִם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=of|Ref=GEN_50:23!3|MId=o010500230031|Strong=3807a 5 אֶפְרַ֔יִם אֶפְרַיִם PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Ephraim|Ref=GEN_50:23!3|MId=o010500230032|Strong=0669 6 בְּנֵ֖י בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 obj _ Gloss=sons|Ref=GEN_50:23!4|MId=o010500230041|Strong=1121 7 שִׁלֵּשִׁ֑ים שִׁלֵּשִׁים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 6 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.a.third.generation|Ref=GEN_50:23!5|MId=o010500230051|Strong=8029 8 גַּ֗ם גַּם ADV _ _ 13 advmod _ Gloss=also|Ref=GEN_50:23!6|MId=o010500230061|Strong=1571|Type=affirmation 9 בְּנֵ֤י בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ Gloss=the.sons|Ref=GEN_50:23!7|MId=o010500230071|Strong=1121 10 מָכִיר֙ מָכִיר PROPN _ _ 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Makir|Ref=GEN_50:23!8|MId=o010500230081|Strong=4353 11 בֶּן־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 appos _ Gloss=the.son|Ref=GEN_50:23!9|MId=o010500230091|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 12 מְנַשֶּׁ֔ה מְנַשֶּׁה PROPN _ _ 11 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Manasseh|Ref=GEN_50:23!10|MId=o010500230101|Strong=4519 13 יֻלְּד֖וּ יָלַד VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=PUAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.were.born|Ref=GEN_50:23!11|MId=o010500230111|Strong=3205|Frame=A1:010500230071;|Type=qatal 14 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=GEN_50:23!12|MId=o010500230121|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 15 בִּרְכֵּ֥י בֶּרֶךְ NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Dual 13 obl _ Gloss=the.knees|Ref=GEN_50:23!13|MId=o010500230131|Strong=1290 16 יוֹסֵֽף יוֹסֵף PROPN _ _ 15 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Joseph|Ref=GEN_50:23!14|MId=o010500230141|Strong=3130|SpaceAfter=No 17 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 16 punct _ Ref=GEN_50:23!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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יַּרְא *he saw* | wayyiqtol · qal | יוֹסֵף *Joseph* | בְּנֵי *sons* | | | | יֻלְּדוּ *they were born* | qatal · pual | | בְּנֵי *the sons* | | | 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} וַחֲזָא יוֹסֵף לְאֶפְרַיִם בְּנִין תְּלִיתָאִין אַף בְּנֵי מָכִיר בַּר מְנַשֶּׁה אִתְיְלִידוּ וְרַבִּי יוֹסֵף 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 saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1659/) **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). 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