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title: Leviticus 13:42 — But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-wh… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead. Who acts: plague, leprosy. Leviticus 13:42 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 13:42 וַיִּקְרָא

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**Who acts:** plague, leprosy · **What happens:** be, break out · **To what, where:** bald head, leprosy

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This is Leviticus 13:42 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 — plague, leprosy — and what happens in the verse to bald head, leprosy, 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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וְכִֽי־יִהְיֶ֤ה בַקָּרַ֙חַת֙ א֣וֹ בַגַּבַּ֔חַת נֶ֖גַע לָבָ֣ן אֲדַמְדָּ֑ם צָרַ֤עַת פֹּרַ֙חַת֙ הִ֔וא בְּקָרַחְתּ֖וֹ א֥וֹ בְגַבַּחְתּֽוֹ׃

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[But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.352/)

## 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:348
# text = וְכִֽי־יִהְיֶ֤ה בַקָּרַ֙חַת֙ א֣וֹ בַגַּבַּ֔חַת נֶ֖גַע לָבָ֣ן אֲדַמְדָּ֑ם צָרַ֤עַת פֹּרַ֙חַת֙ הִ֔וא בְּקָרַחְתּ֖וֹ א֥וֹ בְגַבַּחְתּֽוֹ׃
# verse = LEV.13.42
1-2	וְכִֽי־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	14	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=LEV_13:42!1|MId=o030130420011|Strong=2050b
2	כִֽי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	6	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=LEV_13:42!1|MId=o030130420012|Strong=3588
3	יִהְיֶ֤ה	הָיָה	AUX	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	6	cop	_	Gloss=it.will.be|Ref=LEV_13:42!2|MId=o030130420021|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:030130420061;|Type=yiqtol
4-6	בַקָּרַ֙חַת֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	בַ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	6	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=LEV_13:42!3|MId=o030130420031|Strong=0871a
5	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	6	det	_	Gloss=the.bald|Ref=LEV_13:42!3|MId=o030130420031ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
6	קָּרַ֙חַת֙	קָרַחַת	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	Gloss=spot|Ref=LEV_13:42!3|MId=o030130420032|Strong=7146
7	א֣וֹ	אוֹ	CCONJ	_	_	10	cc	_	Gloss=or|Ref=LEV_13:42!4|MId=o030130420041|Strong=0176
8-10	בַגַּבַּ֔חַת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	בַ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=LEV_13:42!5|MId=o030130420051|Strong=0871a
9	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	10	det	_	Gloss=the.bald|Ref=LEV_13:42!5|MId=o030130420051ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
10	גַּבַּ֔חַת	גַּבַּחַת	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Gloss=forehead|Ref=LEV_13:42!5|MId=o030130420052|Strong=1372
11	נֶ֖גַע	נֶגַע	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Gloss=a.plague|Ref=LEV_13:42!6|MId=o030130420061|Strong=5061
12	לָבָ֣ן	לָבָן	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	11	amod	_	Gloss=white|Ref=LEV_13:42!7|MId=o030130420071|Strong=3836|Type=adjective
13	אֲדַמְדָּ֑ם	אֲדַמְדָּם	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	12	amod	_	Gloss=reddish|Ref=LEV_13:42!8|MId=o030130420081|Strong=0125|Type=adjective
14	צָרַ֤עַת	צָרַעַת	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	0	root	_	Gloss=[is].a.serious.skin.disease|Ref=LEV_13:42!9|MId=o030130420091|Strong=6883
15	פֹּרַ֙חַת֙	פָּרַח	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing	14	acl:relcl	_	Gloss=[which.is].breaking.out|Ref=LEV_13:42!10|MId=o030130420101|Strong=6524|Frame=A0:030130420091;|Type=participle_active
16	הִ֔וא	הִיא	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	Gloss=it|Ref=LEV_13:42!11|MId=o030130420111|Strong=1931a|Type=personal
17-19	בְּקָרַחְתּ֖וֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	18	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=LEV_13:42!12|MId=o030130420121|Strong=0871a
18	קָרַחְתּ	קָרַחַת	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Gloss=his.bald|Ref=LEV_13:42!12|MId=o030130420122|Strong=7146
19	֖וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=spot|Ref=LEV_13:42!12|MId=o030130420123|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
20	א֥וֹ	אוֹ	CCONJ	_	_	22	cc	_	Gloss=or|Ref=LEV_13:42!13|MId=o030130420131|Strong=0176
21-23	בְגַבַּחְתּֽוֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
21	בְ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	22	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=LEV_13:42!14|MId=o030130420141|Strong=0871a
22	גַבַּחְתּ	גַּבַּחַת	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	18	conj	_	Gloss=his.bald|Ref=LEV_13:42!14|MId=o030130420142|Strong=1372
23	ֽוֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=forehead|Ref=LEV_13:42!14|MId=o030130420143|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
24	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	23	punct	_	Ref=LEV_13:42!14
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יִהְיֶה *it will be* | yiqtol · qal | נֶגַע *a plague* |  |  |  |
| פֹּרַחַת *\[which is\] breaking out* | participle active · qal | צָרַעַת *\[is\] a serious skin disease* |  |  |  |

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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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וַאֲרֵי יְהֵי בְקָרָחוּתֵהּ אוֹ בִגְלוֹשׁוּתֵהּ מַכְתַּשׁ חִוָר סַמוֹק סְגִירוּת סָגְיָא הִיא בְּקָרָחוּתֵהּ אוֹ בִגְלוֹשּׁוּתֵהּ

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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 there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.352/)

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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:348`.

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