--- title: Numbers 22:18 — And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak: 'If Balak w… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak: 'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do any thing, small or great. Who acts: Balaam, Balak, I. Numbers 22:18 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.22.18/) [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/) / [Numbers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/) / [chapter 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/22/) / 22:18 # Numbers 22:18 בְּמִדְבַּר **Who acts:** Balaam, Balak, I · **What happens:** answer, say, give, not go, do, word · **To what, where:** house, me, word, thing, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Numbers 22:18 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 — Balaam, Balak, I — and what happens in the verse to house, me, word, thing, LORD, 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. וַיַּ֣עַן בִּלְעָ֗ם וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־עַבְדֵ֣י בָלָ֔ק אִם־יִתֶּן־לִ֥י בָלָ֛ק מְלֹ֥א בֵית֖וֹ כֶּ֣סֶף וְזָהָ֑ב לֹ֣א אוּכַ֗ל לַעֲבֹר֙ אֶת־פִּי֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהָ֔י לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת קְטַנָּ֖ה א֥וֹ גְדוֹלָֽה׃ [And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak: 'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do any thing, small or great.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.809/) ## 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:NUM:788 # text = וַיַּ֣עַן בִּלְעָ֗ם וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־עַבְדֵ֣י בָלָ֔ק אִם־יִתֶּן־לִ֥י בָלָ֛ק מְלֹ֥א בֵית֖וֹ כֶּ֣סֶף וְזָהָ֑ב לֹ֣א אוּכַ֗ל לַעֲבֹר֙ אֶת־פִּי֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהָ֔י לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת קְטַנָּ֖ה א֥וֹ גְדוֹלָֽה׃ # verse = NUM.22.18 1-2 וַיַּ֣עַן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_22:18!1|MId=o040220180011|Strong=2050b 2 יַּ֣עַן עָנָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.answered|Ref=NUM_22:18!1|MId=o040220180012|Strong=6030|Frame=A0:040220180021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 בִּלְעָ֗ם בִּלְעָם PROPN _ _ 2 nsubj _ Gloss=Balaam|Ref=NUM_22:18!2|MId=o040220180021|Strong=1109 4-5 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 5 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_22:18!3|MId=o040220180031|Strong=2050b 5 יֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.said|Ref=NUM_22:18!3|MId=o040220180032|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:040220180021;|Type=wayyiqtol 6 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_22:18!4|MId=o040220180041|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 7 עַבְדֵ֣י עֶבֶד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 5 obl _ Gloss=the.servants|Ref=NUM_22:18!5|MId=o040220180051|Strong=5650 8 בָלָ֔ק בָּלָק PROPN _ _ 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Balak|Ref=NUM_22:18!6|MId=o040220180061|Strong=1111 9 אִם־ אִם SCONJ _ _ 10 mark _ Gloss=if|Ref=NUM_22:18!7|MId=o040220180071|Strong=0518|SpaceAfter=No 10 יִתֶּן־ נָתַן VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 21 advcl _ Gloss=he.will.give|Ref=NUM_22:18!8|MId=o040220180081|Strong=5414|Frame=A0:040220180101;A1:040220180111;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No 11-12 לִ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 ל לְ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_22:18!9|MId=o040220180091|Strong=3807a 12 ִ֥י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ Gloss=me|Ref=NUM_22:18!9|MId=o040220180092|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 13 בָלָ֛ק בָּלָק PROPN _ _ 10 nsubj _ Gloss=Balak|Ref=NUM_22:18!10|MId=o040220180101|Strong=1111 14 מְלֹ֥א מְלֹא NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 obj _ Gloss=the.fullness|Ref=NUM_22:18!11|MId=o040220180111|Strong=4393 15-16 בֵית֖וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 בֵית בַּיִת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 14 compound:smixut _ Gloss=his.house|Ref=NUM_22:18!12|MId=o040220180121|Strong=1004 16 ֖וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=NUM_22:18!12|MId=o040220180122|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 17 כֶּ֣סֶף כֶּסֶף NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 14 appos _ Gloss=silver|Ref=NUM_22:18!13|MId=o040220180131|Strong=3701 18-19 וְזָהָ֑ב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_22:18!14|MId=o040220180141|Strong=2050b 19 זָהָ֑ב זָהָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 17 conj _ Gloss=gold|Ref=NUM_22:18!14|MId=o040220180142|Strong=2091 20 לֹ֣א לֹא ADV _ _ 21 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=NUM_22:18!15|MId=o040220180151|Strong=3808|Type=negative 21 אוּכַ֗ל יָכֹל VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 5 ccomp _ Gloss=I.will.be.able|Ref=NUM_22:18!16|MId=o040220180161|Strong=3201|Frame=A0:040220180021;|Type=yiqtol 22-23 לַעֲבֹר֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 23 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_22:18!17|MId=o040220180171|Strong=3807a 23 עֲבֹר֙ עָבַר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 21 xcomp _ Gloss=transgress|Ref=NUM_22:18!17|MId=o040220180172|Strong=5674|Frame=A0:040220180021;|Type=infinitive_construct 24 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 25 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=NUM_22:18!18|MId=o040220180181|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 25 פִּי֙ פֶּה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 23 obl _ Gloss=the.mouth|Ref=NUM_22:18!19|MId=o040220180191|Strong=6310 26 יְהוָ֣ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 25 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=NUM_22:18!20|MId=o040220180201|Strong=3068 27-28 אֱלֹהָ֔י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 27 אֱלֹה אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 26 appos _ Gloss=God|Ref=NUM_22:18!21|MId=o040220180211|Strong=0430 28 ָ֔י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=NUM_22:18!21|MId=o040220180212|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 29-30 לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 29 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 30 case _ Gloss=by|Ref=NUM_22:18!22|MId=o040220180221|Strong=3807a 30 עֲשׂ֥וֹת עָשָׂה VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 23 advcl _ Gloss=doing|Ref=NUM_22:18!22|MId=o040220180222|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:040220180021;A1:040220180231;040220180251;|Type=infinitive_construct 31 קְטַנָּ֖ה קָטָן ADJ _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 30 obj _ Gloss=a.small.[thing]|Ref=NUM_22:18!23|MId=o040220180231|Strong=6996|Type=adjective 32 א֥וֹ אוֹ CCONJ _ _ 33 cc _ Gloss=or|Ref=NUM_22:18!24|MId=o040220180241|Strong=0176 33 גְדוֹלָֽה גָּדוֹל ADJ _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 31 conj _ Gloss=a.large.[thing]|Ref=NUM_22:18!25|MId=o040220180251|Strong=1419|Type=adjective|SpaceAfter=No 34 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 33 punct _ Ref=NUM_22:18!25 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: yes - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יַּעַן *he answered* | wayyiqtol · qal | בִּלְעָם *Balaam* | | | | | יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | בִּלְעָם *Balaam* | | | | | יִתֶּן־ *he will give* | yiqtol · qal | בָלָק *Balak* | מְלֹא *the fullness* | | | | **not** אוּכַל *I will be able* | yiqtol · qal | בִּלְעָם *Balaam* | | | | | עֲבֹר *transgress* | infinitive construct · qal | בִּלְעָם *Balaam* | | | | | עֲשׂוֹת *doing* | infinitive construct · qal | בִּלְעָם *Balaam* | קְטַנָּה *a small \[thing\]* + גְדוֹלָֽה *a large \[thing\]* | | | 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} וַאֲתֵיב בִּלְעָם וַאֲמַר לְעַבְדֵי בָלָק אִם יִתֶּן לִי בָלָק מְלֵי בֵיתֵיהּ כְּסַף וּדְהַב לֵית לִי רְשׁוּ לְמֶעֱבַּר עַל גְזֵירַת מֵימְרָא דַיְיָ אֱלָהָי לְמֶעְבַּד זְעֵרְתָּא אוֹ רַבְּתָא 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 Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak: 'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do any thing, small or great.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.809/) **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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