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title: Leviticus 13:16 — But if the raw flesh again be turned into white, then he shall come… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: But if the raw flesh again be turned into white, then he shall come unto the priest; Who acts: priest. Leviticus 13:16 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 13:16 וַיִּקְרָא

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**Who acts:** priest · **What happens:** turn, come · **To what, where:** raw flesh, white

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This is Leviticus 13:16 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 — priest — and what happens in the verse to raw flesh, white, 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 27 chapters of Leviticus on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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א֣וֹ כִ֥י יָשׁ֛וּב הַבָּשָׂ֥ר הַחַ֖י וְנֶהְפַּ֣ךְ לְלָבָ֑ן וּבָ֖א אֶל־הַכֹּהֵֽן׃

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[But if the raw flesh again be turned into white, then he shall come unto the priest;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.326/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:LEV:322
# text = א֣וֹ כִ֥י יָשׁ֛וּב הַבָּשָׂ֥ר הַחַ֖י וְנֶהְפַּ֣ךְ לְלָבָ֑ן וּבָ֖א אֶל־הַכֹּהֵֽן׃
# verse = LEV.13.16
1	א֣וֹ	אוֹ	CCONJ	_	_	3	cc	_	Gloss=or|Ref=LEV_13:16!1|MId=o030130160011|Strong=0176
2	כִ֥י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	3	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=LEV_13:16!2|MId=o030130160021|Strong=3588
3	יָשׁ֛וּב	שׁוּב	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=it.will.return|Ref=LEV_13:16!3|MId=o030130160031|Strong=7725|Frame=A0:030130160042;|Type=yiqtol
4-5	הַבָּשָׂ֥ר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	5	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=LEV_13:16!4|MId=o030130160041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
5	בָּשָׂ֥ר	בָּשָׂר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Gloss=flesh|Ref=LEV_13:16!4|MId=o030130160042|Strong=1320
6-7	הַחַ֖י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	7	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=LEV_13:16!5|MId=o030130160051|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
7	חַ֖י	חַי	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	amod	_	Gloss=living|Ref=LEV_13:16!5|MId=o030130160052|Strong=2416a|Type=adjective
8-9	וְנֶהְפַּ֣ךְ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	9	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=LEV_13:16!6|MId=o030130160061|Strong=2050b
9	נֶהְפַּ֣ךְ	הָפַךְ	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	conj	_	Gloss=it.will.be.turned|Ref=LEV_13:16!6|MId=o030130160062|Strong=2015|Frame=A1:030130160042;|Type=weqatal
10-11	לְלָבָ֑ן	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	11	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=LEV_13:16!7|MId=o030130160071|Strong=3807a
11	לָבָ֑ן	לָבָן	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Gloss=white|Ref=LEV_13:16!7|MId=o030130160072|Strong=3836|Type=adjective
12-13	וּבָ֖א	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	13	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=LEV_13:16!8|MId=o030130160081|Strong=2050b
13	בָ֖א	בּוֹא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	3	conj	_	Gloss=he.will.go|Ref=LEV_13:16!8|MId=o030130160082|Strong=0935|Frame=A0:030130130112;|Type=weqatal
14	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	_	16	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=LEV_13:16!9|MId=o030130160091|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No
15-16	הַכֹּהֵֽן	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
15	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	16	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=LEV_13:16!10|MId=o030130160101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
16	כֹּהֵֽן	כֹּהֵן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Gloss=priest|Ref=LEV_13:16!10|MId=o030130160102|Strong=3548
17	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	16	punct	_	Ref=LEV_13:16!10
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יָשׁוּב *it will return* | yiqtol · qal | בָּשָׂר *flesh* |  |  |  |
| נֶהְפַּךְ *it will be turned* | weqatal · niphal |  | בָּשָׂר *flesh* |  |  |
| בָא *he will go* | weqatal · qal |  |  |  |  |

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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}

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אוֹ אֲרֵי יְתוּב בִּסְרָא חַיָא וְיִתְהֲפִיךְ לְמֶחֱוָר וְיִתֵּתֵי לְוַת כַּהֲנָא

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [But if the raw flesh again be turned into white, then he shall come unto the priest;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.326/)

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**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:LEV:322`.

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