--- title: Leviticus 21:17 — Speak unto Aaron, saying: Whosoever he be of thy seed throughout the… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Speak unto Aaron, saying: Whosoever he be of thy seed throughout their generations that hath a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. Who acts: you, Whosoever, seed, LORD. Leviticus 21:17 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.17/) [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/) / [Leviticus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV/) / [chapter 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV/21/) / 21:17 # Leviticus 21:17 וַיִּקְרָא **Who acts:** you, Whosoever, seed, LORD · **What happens:** speak, say, be, have, let, not approach · **To what, where:** blemish, LORD, bread · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Leviticus 21:17 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 — you, Whosoever, seed, LORD — and what happens in the verse to blemish, LORD, bread, 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. דַּבֵּ֥ר אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹ֖ן לֵאמֹ֑ר אִ֣ישׁ מִֽזַּרְעֲךָ֞ לְדֹרֹתָ֗ם אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִהְיֶ֥ה בוֹ֙ מ֔וּם לֹ֣א יִקְרַ֔ב לְהַקְרִ֖יב לֶ֥חֶם אֱלֹהָֽיו׃ [Speak unto Aaron, saying: Whosoever he be of thy seed throughout their generations that hath a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.623/) ## 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:LEV:616 # text = דַּבֵּ֥ר אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹ֖ן לֵאמֹ֑ר אִ֣ישׁ מִֽזַּרְעֲךָ֞ לְדֹרֹתָ֗ם אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִהְיֶ֥ה בוֹ֙ מ֔וּם לֹ֣א יִקְרַ֔ב לְהַקְרִ֖יב לֶ֥חֶם אֱלֹהָֽיו׃ # verse = LEV.21.17 1 דַּבֵּ֥ר דָבַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=2 0 root _ Gloss=speak|Ref=LEV_21:17!1|MId=o030210170011|Strong=1696|Frame=A0:030210160041;|Type=imperative 2 אֶֽל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 3 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=LEV_21:17!2|MId=o030210170021|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 3 אַהֲרֹ֖ן אַהֲרֹן PROPN _ _ 1 obl _ Gloss=Aaron|Ref=LEV_21:17!3|MId=o030210170031|Strong=0175 4-5 לֵאמֹ֑ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 לֵ לְ ADP _ ExtPos=SCONJ 19 mark _ Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=LEV_21:17!4|MId=o030210170041|Strong=3807a 5 אמֹ֑ר אָמַר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 4 fixed _ Gloss=|Ref=LEV_21:17!4|MId=o030210170042|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:030210160041;|Type=infinitive_construct 6 אִ֣ישׁ אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Gloss=a.man|Ref=LEV_21:17!5|MId=o030210170051|Strong=0376 7-9 מִֽזַּרְעֲךָ֞ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 מִֽ מִן ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=LEV_21:17!6|MId=o030210170061|Strong=4480 8 זַּרְע זֶרַע NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Gloss=offspring|Ref=LEV_21:17!6|MId=o030210170062|Strong=2233 9 ֲךָ֞ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=LEV_21:17!6|MId=o030210170063|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 10-12 לְדֹרֹתָ֗ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=LEV_21:17!7|MId=o030210170071|Strong=3807a 11 דֹרֹת דּוֹר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 8 nmod _ Gloss=generations|Ref=LEV_21:17!7|MId=o030210170072|Strong=1755 12 ָ֗ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Gloss=their|Ref=LEV_21:17!7|MId=o030210170073|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 13 אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 16 mark _ Gloss=whom|Ref=LEV_21:17!8|MId=o030210170081|Strong=0834|Type=relative 14 יִהְיֶ֥ה הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 16 cop _ Gloss=it.will.be|Ref=LEV_21:17!9|MId=o030210170091|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:030210170111;|Type=yiqtol 15-16 בוֹ֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 ב בְּ ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=LEV_21:17!10|MId=o030210170101|Strong=0871a 16 וֹ֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 acl:relcl _ Gloss=him|Ref=LEV_21:17!10|MId=o030210170102|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 17 מ֔וּם מאוּם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Gloss=a.blemish|Ref=LEV_21:17!11|MId=o030210170111|Strong=3971a 18 לֹ֣א לֹא ADV _ _ 19 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=LEV_21:17!12|MId=o030210170121|Strong=3808|Type=negative 19 יִקְרַ֔ב קָרַב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 1 ccomp _ Gloss=he.will.draw.near|Ref=LEV_21:17!13|MId=o030210170131|Strong=7126|Frame=A0:030210170051;|Type=yiqtol 20-21 לְהַקְרִ֖יב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 21 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=LEV_21:17!14|MId=o030210170141|Strong=3807a 21 הַקְרִ֖יב קָרַב VERB _ HebBinyan=HIPHIL 19 advcl _ Gloss=present|Ref=LEV_21:17!14|MId=o030210170142|Strong=7126|Frame=AA:030210170051;A0:030210170151;|Type=infinitive_construct 22 לֶ֥חֶם לֶחֶם NOUN _ Number=Sing 21 obj _ Gloss=the.food|Ref=LEV_21:17!15|MId=o030210170151|Strong=3899 23-24 אֱלֹהָֽיו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 23 אֱלֹהָֽי אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 22 compound:smixut _ Gloss=his.God|Ref=LEV_21:17!16|MId=o030210170161|Strong=0430 24 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=LEV_21:17!16|MId=o030210170162|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 25 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 24 punct _ Ref=LEV_21:17!16 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: yes - the frame alone: decl · assert · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | דַּבֵּר *speak* | imperative · piel | | | | | | אמֹר | infinitive construct · qal | | | | | | יִהְיֶה *it will be* | yiqtol · qal | מוּם *a blemish* | | | | | **not** יִקְרַב *he will draw near* | yiqtol · qal | אִישׁ *a man* | | | | | הַקְרִיב *present* | infinitive construct · hiphil | לֶחֶם *the food* | | | אִישׁ *a man* | 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} מַלֵל עִם אַהֲרֹן לְמֵימָר גְבַר מִבְּנָיִךְ לְדָרֵיהוֹן דִי יְהֵּי בֵהּ מוּמָא לָא יִקְרַב לְקָרָבָא קֻרְבָּנָא קֳדָם אֱלָהֵהּ 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. [Speak unto Aaron, saying: Whosoever he be of thy seed throughout their generations that hath a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.623/) **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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