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title: Numbers 14:23 — surely they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers,… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: surely they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised Me see it. Who acts: signs, I, any. Numbers 14:23 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 14:23 בְּמִדְבַּר

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**Who acts:** signs, I, any · **What happens:** not see, swear, despise, see · **To what, where:** land, Me

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This is Numbers 14:23 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 — signs, I, any — and what happens in the verse to land, Me, 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 36 chapters of Numbers on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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אִם־יִרְאוּ֙ אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר נִשְׁבַּ֖עְתִּי לַאֲבֹתָ֑ם וְכָל־מְנַאֲצַ֖י לֹ֥א יִרְאֽוּהָ׃

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[surely they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised Me see it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.545/)

## 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:NUM:526
# text = אִם־יִרְאוּ֙ אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר נִשְׁבַּ֖עְתִּי לַאֲבֹתָ֑ם וְכָל־מְנַאֲצַ֖י לֹ֥א יִרְאֽוּהָ׃
# verse = NUM.14.23
1	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	_	2	mark	_	Gloss=if|Ref=NUM_14:23!1|MId=o040140230011|Strong=0518|SpaceAfter=No
2	יִרְאוּ֙	רָאָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=they.will.see|Ref=NUM_14:23!2|MId=o040140230021|Strong=7200|Frame=A0:040140220032;A1:040140230042;|Type=yiqtol
3	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	5	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=NUM_14:23!3|MId=o040140230031|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
4-5	הָאָ֔רֶץ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	הָ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	5	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_14:23!4|MId=o040140230041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
5	אָ֔רֶץ	אֶרֶץ	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	Gloss=land|Ref=NUM_14:23!4|MId=o040140230042|Strong=0776
6	אֲשֶׁ֥ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	_	7	mark	_	Gloss=which|Ref=NUM_14:23!5|MId=o040140230051|Strong=0834|Type=relative
7	נִשְׁבַּ֖עְתִּי	שָׁבַע	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=1	5	acl:relcl	_	Gloss=I.swore|Ref=NUM_14:23!6|MId=o040140230061|Strong=7650|Frame=A0:040140210061;A1:040140230042;|Type=qatal
8-10	לַאֲבֹתָ֑ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_14:23!7|MId=o040140230071|Strong=3807a
9	אֲבֹת	אָב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	7	obl	_	Gloss=ancestors|Ref=NUM_14:23!7|MId=o040140230072|Strong=0001
10	ָ֑ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=their|Ref=NUM_14:23!7|MId=o040140230073|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
11-12	וְכָל־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	16	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_14:23!8|MId=o040140230081|Strong=2050b
12	כָל־	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Gloss=all|Ref=NUM_14:23!8|MId=o040140230082|Strong=3605
13-14	מְנַאֲצַ֖י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	מְנַאֲצ	נָאַץ	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur	12	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=[those|Ref=NUM_14:23!9|MId=o040140230091|Strong=5006|Frame=A1:040140230092;|Type=participle_active
14	ַ֖י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=who].spurned.me|Ref=NUM_14:23!9|MId=o040140230092|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
15	לֹ֥א	לֹא	ADV	_	_	16	advmod	_	Gloss=not|Ref=NUM_14:23!10|MId=o040140230101|Strong=3808|Type=negative
16-17	יִרְאֽוּהָ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	יִרְאֽוּ	רָאָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=they|Ref=NUM_14:23!11|MId=o040140230111|Strong=7200|Frame=A0:040140230091;A1:040140230112;|Type=yiqtol
17	הָ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	Gloss=will.see.it|Ref=NUM_14:23!11|MId=o040140230112|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal
18	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	17	punct	_	Ref=NUM_14:23!11
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: yes

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יִרְאוּ *they will see* | yiqtol · qal |  | אָרֶץ *land* |  |  |
| נִשְׁבַּעְתִּי *I swore* | qatal · niphal |  | אָרֶץ *land* |  |  |
| מְנַאֲצ *\[those* | participle active · piel |  | ַי *who\] spurned me* |  |  |
| **not** יִרְאֽוּ *they* | yiqtol · qal | מְנַאֲצ *\[those* | הָ *will see it* |  |  |

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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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אִם יֶחֶזוּן יָת אַרְעָא דִי קַיֵמִית לַאֲבָהַתְהוֹן וְכָל דְאַרְגִיזוּ קֳדָמַי לָא יֶחֱזִנַהּ

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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. [surely they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised Me see it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.545/)

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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:NUM:526`.

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