--- title: Genesis 9:16 — And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I m… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.' Who acts: bow, I, flesh. 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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 — bow, I, flesh — and what happens in the verse to cloud, everlasting covenant, 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. וְהָיְתָ֥ה הַקֶּ֖שֶׁת בֶּֽעָנָ֑ן וּרְאִיתִ֗יהָ לִזְכֹּר֙ בְּרִ֣ית עוֹלָ֔ם בֵּ֣ין אֱלֹהִ֔ים וּבֵין֙ כָּל־נֶ֣פֶשׁ חַיָּ֔ה בְּכָל־בָּשָׂ֖ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃ [And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.233/) ## 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:221 # text = וְהָיְתָ֥ה הַקֶּ֖שֶׁת בֶּֽעָנָ֑ן וּרְאִיתִ֗יהָ לִזְכֹּר֙ בְּרִ֣ית עוֹלָ֔ם בֵּ֣ין אֱלֹהִ֔ים וּבֵין֙ כָּל־נֶ֣פֶשׁ חַיָּ֔ה בְּכָל־בָּשָׂ֖ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃ # verse = GEN.9.16 1-2 וְהָיְתָ֥ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_9:16!1|MId=o010090160011|Strong=2050b 2 הָיְתָ֥ה הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 7 cop _ Gloss=it.will.be|Ref=GEN_9:16!1|MId=o010090160012|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:010090160022;|Type=weqatal 3-4 הַקֶּ֖שֶׁת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 4 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_9:16!2|MId=o010090160021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 4 קֶּ֖שֶׁת קֶשֶׁת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Gloss=bow|Ref=GEN_9:16!2|MId=o010090160022|Strong=7198 5-7 בֶּֽעָנָ֑ן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 בֶּֽ בְּ ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=GEN_9:16!3|MId=o010090160031|Strong=0871a 6 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 7 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_9:16!3|MId=o010090160031ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 7 עָנָ֑ן עָנָן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=cloud[s]|Ref=GEN_9:16!3|MId=o010090160032|Strong=6051 8-10 וּרְאִיתִ֗יהָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_9:16!4|MId=o010090160041|Strong=2050b 9 רְאִיתִ֗י רָאָה VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 7 conj _ Gloss=I|Ref=GEN_9:16!4|MId=o010090160042|Strong=7200|Frame=A0:010090120021;A1:010090160043;|Type=weqatal 10 הָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ Gloss=will.see.it|Ref=GEN_9:16!4|MId=o010090160043|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 11-12 לִזְכֹּר֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_9:16!5|MId=o010090160051|Strong=3807a 12 זְכֹּר֙ זָכַר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 9 advcl _ Gloss=remember|Ref=GEN_9:16!5|MId=o010090160052|Strong=2142|Frame=A0:010090120021;A1:010090160061;|Type=infinitive_construct 13 בְּרִ֣ית בְּרִית NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 12 obj _ Gloss=[the].covenant|Ref=GEN_9:16!6|MId=o010090160061|Strong=1285 14 עוֹלָ֔ם עוֹלָם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.perpetuity|Ref=GEN_9:16!7|MId=o010090160071|Strong=5769 15 בֵּ֣ין בֵּין ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=between|Ref=GEN_9:16!8|MId=o010090160081|Strong=0996 16 אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 13 nmod _ Gloss=God|Ref=GEN_9:16!9|MId=o010090160091|Strong=0430 17-18 וּבֵין֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_9:16!10|MId=o010090160101|Strong=2050b 18 בֵין֙ בֵּין ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=between|Ref=GEN_9:16!10|MId=o010090160102|Strong=0996 19 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 conj _ Gloss=every|Ref=GEN_9:16!11|MId=o010090160111|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No 20 נֶ֣פֶשׁ נֶפֶשׁ NOUN _ Number=Sing 19 compound:smixut _ Gloss=creature|Ref=GEN_9:16!12|MId=o010090160121|Strong=5315 21 חַיָּ֔ה חַי ADJ _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 20 amod _ Gloss=living|Ref=GEN_9:16!13|MId=o010090160131|Strong=2416a|Type=adjective 22-23 בְּכָל־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 23 case _ Gloss=among|Ref=GEN_9:16!14|MId=o010090160141|Strong=0871a 23 כָל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 20 nmod _ Gloss=all|Ref=GEN_9:16!14|MId=o010090160142|Strong=3605 24 בָּשָׂ֖ר בָּשָׂר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 23 compound:smixut _ Gloss=flesh|Ref=GEN_9:16!15|MId=o010090160151|Strong=1320 25 אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 28 mark _ Gloss=which|Ref=GEN_9:16!16|MId=o010090160161|Strong=0834|Type=relative 26 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 28 case _ Gloss=[is].on|Ref=GEN_9:16!17|MId=o010090160171|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 27-28 הָאָֽרֶץ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 27 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 28 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_9:16!18|MId=o010090160181|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 28 אָֽרֶץ אֶרֶץ NOUN _ Number=Sing 19 acl:relcl _ Gloss=earth|Ref=GEN_9:16!18|MId=o010090160182|Strong=0776 29 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 28 punct _ Ref=GEN_9:16!18 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | הָיְתָה *it will be* | weqatal · qal | קֶּשֶׁת *bow* | | | | | רְאִיתִי *I* | weqatal · qal | | הָ *will see it* | | | | זְכֹּר *remember* | infinitive construct · qal | | בְּרִית *\[the\] covenant* | | | 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} וּתְהֵי קַשְׁתָּא בַּעֲנָנָא וְאֵחֲזִנַּהּ לְמִדְכַּר קְיַם עָלָם בֵּין מֵימְרָא דַּיְיָ וּבֵין כָּל נַפְשָׁא חַיְתָא בְּכָל בִּשְׂרָא דִּי עַל אַרְעָא 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 bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.233/) **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:221`. - ← previous: [Genesis 9:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.15/) - next →: [Genesis 9:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.17/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/9/)