--- title: Genesis 6:3 — And the LORD said: 'My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for t… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD said: 'My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for that he also is flesh; therefore shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.' Who acts: LORD, spirit, days. Genesis 6:3 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.6.3/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/6/) / 6:3 # Genesis 6:3 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** LORD, spirit, days · **What happens:** say, not abide, be · **To what, where:** flesh, hundred years · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Genesis 6:3 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: who acts — LORD, spirit, days — and what happens in the verse to flesh, hundred years, 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. וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה לֹֽא־יָד֨וֹן רוּחִ֤י בָֽאָדָם֙ לְעֹלָ֔ם בְּשַׁגַּ֖ם ה֣וּא בָשָׂ֑ר וְהָי֣וּ יָמָ֔יו מֵאָ֥ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים שָׁנָֽה׃ [And the LORD said: 'My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for that he also is flesh; therefore shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.151/) ## 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:140 # text = וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה לֹֽא־יָד֨וֹן רוּחִ֤י בָֽאָדָם֙ לְעֹלָ֔ם בְּשַׁגַּ֖ם ה֣וּא בָשָׂ֑ר וְהָי֣וּ יָמָ֔יו מֵאָ֥ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים שָׁנָֽה׃ # verse = GEN.6.3 1-2 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_6:3!1|MId=o010060030011|Strong=2050b 2 יֹּ֣אמֶר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.said|Ref=GEN_6:3!1|MId=o010060030012|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:010060030021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 יְהוָ֗ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=GEN_6:3!2|MId=o010060030021|Strong=3068 4 לֹֽא־ לֹא ADV _ _ 5 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=GEN_6:3!3|MId=o010060030031|Strong=3808|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 5 יָד֨וֹן דון VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 ccomp _ Gloss=it.will.remain|Ref=GEN_6:3!4|MId=o010060030041|Strong=1777|Frame=A0:010060030051;|Type=yiqtol 6-7 רוּחִ֤י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 רוּח רוּחַ NOUN _ Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Gloss=spirit|Ref=GEN_6:3!5|MId=o010060030051|Strong=7307 7 ִ֤י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=GEN_6:3!5|MId=o010060030052|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 8-10 בָֽאָדָם֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 בָֽ בְּ ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=GEN_6:3!6|MId=o010060030061|Strong=0871a 9 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 10 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=GEN_6:3!6|MId=o010060030061ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 10 אָדָם֙ אָדָם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 obl _ Gloss=humankind|Ref=GEN_6:3!6|MId=o010060030062|Strong=0120 11-12 לְעֹלָ֔ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=forever|Ref=GEN_6:3!7|MId=o010060030071|Strong=3807a 12 עֹלָ֔ם עוֹלָם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 obl _ Gloss=of.perpetuity|Ref=GEN_6:3!7|MId=o010060030072|Strong=5769 13-15 בְּשַׁגַּ֖ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 5 parataxis _ Gloss=in|Ref=GEN_6:3!8|MId=o010060030081|Strong=0871a 14 שַׁ שֶׁ SCONJ _ _ 17 mark _ Gloss=that|Ref=GEN_6:3!8|MId=o010060030082|Strong=7578a|Type=relative 15 גַּ֖ם גַּם ADV _ _ 16 advmod _ Gloss=also|Ref=GEN_6:3!8|MId=o010060030083|Strong=1571 16 ה֣וּא הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ Gloss=he|Ref=GEN_6:3!9|MId=o010060030091|Strong=1931|Type=personal 17 בָשָׂ֑ר בָּשָׂר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ Gloss=[is].flesh|Ref=GEN_6:3!10|MId=o010060030101|Strong=1320 18-19 וְהָי֣וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 25 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_6:3!11|MId=o010060030111|Strong=2050b 19 הָי֣וּ הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 25 cop _ Gloss=they.will.be|Ref=GEN_6:3!11|MId=o010060030112|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:010060030121;|Type=weqatal 20-21 יָמָ֔יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 יָמָ֔י יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ Gloss=days|Ref=GEN_6:3!12|MId=o010060030121|Strong=3117 21 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=GEN_6:3!12|MId=o010060030122|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 22 מֵאָ֥ה מֵאָה NUM _ Number=Sing 25 nummod _ Gloss=one.hundred|Ref=GEN_6:3!13|MId=o010060030131|Strong=3967|Type=cardinal_number 23-24 וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 23 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 24 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_6:3!14|MId=o010060030141|Strong=2050b 24 עֶשְׂרִ֖ים עֶשְׂרִים NUM _ Number=Plur 22 conj _ Gloss=twenty|Ref=GEN_6:3!14|MId=o010060030142|Strong=6242|Type=cardinal_number 25 שָׁנָֽה שָׁנָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 5 conj _ Gloss=year[s]|Ref=GEN_6:3!15|MId=o010060030151|Strong=8141|SpaceAfter=No 26 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 25 punct _ Ref=GEN_6:3!15 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: yes - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | יְהוָה *Yahweh* | | | | | **not** יָדוֹן *it will remain* | yiqtol · qal | רוּח *spirit* | | | | | הָיוּ *they will be* | weqatal · qal | יָמָי *days* | | | | 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} וַאֲמַר יְיָ לָא יִתְקַיַם דָרָא בִישָׁא הָדֵין קֳדָמַי לְעַלָם בְּדִיל דְאִנוּן בִּשְׂרָא וְעוֹבָדֵיהוֹן בִּישַׁיָא אַרְכָא יְהִיבַת לְהוֹן מְאָה וְעַשְׂרִין שְׁנִין אִם יְתוּבוּן 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 the LORD said: 'My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for that he also is flesh; therefore shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.151/) **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:140`. - ← previous: [Genesis 6:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.6.2/) - next →: [Genesis 6:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.6.4/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/6/)