--- title: Genesis 9:17 — And God said unto Noah: 'This is the token of the covenant which I h… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And God said unto Noah: 'This is the token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.' Who acts: God, This, I, flesh. Genesis 9:17 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.9.17/) [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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/9/) / 9:17 # Genesis 9:17 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** God, This, I, flesh · **What happens:** say, be, establish · **To what, where:** token, covenant · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Genesis 9:17 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 — God, This, I, flesh — and what happens in the verse to token, 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. וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶל־נֹ֑חַ זֹ֤את אֽוֹת־הַבְּרִית֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הֲקִמֹ֔תִי בֵּינִ֕י וּבֵ֥ין כָּל־בָּשָׂ֖ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃פ [And God said unto Noah: 'This is the token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.234/) ## 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:222 # text = וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶל־נֹ֑חַ זֹ֤את אֽוֹת־הַבְּרִית֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הֲקִמֹ֔תִי בֵּינִ֕י וּבֵ֥ין כָּל־בָּשָׂ֖ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃פ # verse = GEN.9.17 1-2 וַיֹּ֥אמֶר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_9:17!1|MId=o010090170011|Strong=2050b 2 יֹּ֥אמֶר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.said|Ref=GEN_9:17!1|MId=o010090170012|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:010090170021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Gloss=God|Ref=GEN_9:17!2|MId=o010090170021|Strong=0430 4 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_9:17!3|MId=o010090170031|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 5 נֹ֑חַ נֹחַ PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Noah|Ref=GEN_9:17!4|MId=o010090170041|Strong=5146 6 זֹ֤את זֹאת PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 nsubj _ Gloss=this|Ref=GEN_9:17!5|MId=o010090170051|Strong=2063|Type=demonstrative 7 אֽוֹת־ אוֹת NOUN _ Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ Gloss=[is].the.sign|Ref=GEN_9:17!6|MId=o010090170061|Strong=0226|SpaceAfter=No 8-9 הַבְּרִית֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 9 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=GEN_9:17!7|MId=o010090170071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 9 בְּרִית֙ בְּרִית NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.covenant|Ref=GEN_9:17!7|MId=o010090170072|Strong=1285 10 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 11 mark _ Gloss=which|Ref=GEN_9:17!8|MId=o010090170081|Strong=0834|Type=relative 11 הֲקִמֹ֔תִי קוּם VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=1 9 acl:relcl _ Gloss=I.have.established|Ref=GEN_9:17!9|MId=o010090170091|Strong=6965|Frame=AA:010090170021;A0:010090170072;|Type=qatal 12-13 בֵּינִ֕י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 בֵּינ בֵּין ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=between|Ref=GEN_9:17!10|MId=o010090170101|Strong=0996 13 ִ֕י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ Gloss=me|Ref=GEN_9:17!10|MId=o010090170102|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 14-15 וּבֵ֥ין _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_9:17!11|MId=o010090170111|Strong=2050b 15 בֵ֥ין בֵּין ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=between|Ref=GEN_9:17!11|MId=o010090170112|Strong=0996 16 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 conj _ Gloss=all|Ref=GEN_9:17!12|MId=o010090170121|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No 17 בָּשָׂ֖ר בָּשָׂר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 compound:smixut _ Gloss=flesh|Ref=GEN_9:17!13|MId=o010090170131|Strong=1320 18 אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 21 mark _ Gloss=which|Ref=GEN_9:17!14|MId=o010090170141|Strong=0834|Type=relative 19 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 21 case _ Gloss=[is].on|Ref=GEN_9:17!15|MId=o010090170151|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 20-21 הָאָֽרֶץ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 21 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_9:17!16|MId=o010090170161|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 21 אָֽרֶץ אֶרֶץ NOUN _ Number=Sing 16 acl:relcl _ Gloss=earth|Ref=GEN_9:17!16|MId=o010090170162|Strong=0776 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=GEN_9:17!16|SpaceAfter=No 23 פ פ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=GEN_9:17!16 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | אֱלֹהִים *God* | | | | | הֲקִמֹתִי *I have established* | qatal · hiphil | בְּרִית *the covenant* | | | אֱלֹהִים *God* | 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 לְנֹחַ דָּא אָת קְיָם דִּי אֲקֵמִית בֵּין מֵימְרִי וּבֵין כָּל 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 God said unto Noah: 'This is the token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.234/) **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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