--- title: Numbers 22:7 — And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the re… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spoke unto him the words of Balak. Who acts: elders. Numbers 22:7 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.22.7/) [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/) / 22:7 # Numbers 22:7 בְּמִדְבַּר **Who acts:** elders · **What happens:** depart, come, speak, reward, word · **To what, where:** hand, words, Balak, divination · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Numbers 22:7 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 — elders — and what happens in the verse to hand, words, Balak, divination, 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. וַיֵּ֨לְכ֜וּ זִקְנֵ֤י מוֹאָב֙ וְזִקְנֵ֣י מִדְיָ֔ן וּקְסָמִ֖ים בְּיָדָ֑ם וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ אֶל־בִּלְעָ֔ם וַיְדַבְּר֥וּ אֵלָ֖יו דִּבְרֵ֥י בָלָֽק׃ [And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spoke unto him the words of Balak.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.798/) ## 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:777 # text = וַיֵּ֨לְכ֜וּ זִקְנֵ֤י מוֹאָב֙ וְזִקְנֵ֣י מִדְיָ֔ן וּקְסָמִ֖ים בְּיָדָ֑ם וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ אֶל־בִּלְעָ֔ם וַיְדַבְּר֥וּ אֵלָ֖יו דִּבְרֵ֥י בָלָֽק׃ # verse = NUM.22.7 1-2 וַיֵּ֨לְכ֜וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_22:7!1|MId=o040220070011|Strong=2050b 2 יֵּ֨לְכ֜וּ הלך VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.went|Ref=NUM_22:7!1|MId=o040220070012|Strong=1980|Frame=A0:040220070021;040220070042;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 זִקְנֵ֤י זָקֵן ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Gloss=the.elders|Ref=NUM_22:7!2|MId=o040220070021|Strong=2205|Type=adjective 4 מוֹאָב֙ מוֹאָב PROPN _ _ 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Moab|Ref=NUM_22:7!3|MId=o040220070031|Strong=4124 5-6 וְזִקְנֵ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 6 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_22:7!4|MId=o040220070041|Strong=2050b 6 זִקְנֵ֣י זָקֵן ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 3 conj _ Gloss=the.elders|Ref=NUM_22:7!4|MId=o040220070042|Strong=2205|Type=adjective 7 מִדְיָ֔ן מִדְיָן PROPN _ _ 6 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Midian|Ref=NUM_22:7!5|MId=o040220070051|Strong=4080 8-9 וּקְסָמִ֖ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 11 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_22:7!6|MId=o040220070061|Strong=2050b 9 קְסָמִ֖ים קֶסֶם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ Gloss=divinations|Ref=NUM_22:7!6|MId=o040220070062|Strong=7081 10-12 בְּיָדָ֑ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=[were].in|Ref=NUM_22:7!7|MId=o040220070071|Strong=0871a 11 יָד יָד NOUN _ Number=Sing 2 conj _ Gloss=hand|Ref=NUM_22:7!7|MId=o040220070072|Strong=3027 12 ָ֑ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Gloss=their|Ref=NUM_22:7!7|MId=o040220070073|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 13-14 וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_22:7!8|MId=o040220070081|Strong=2050b 14 יָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ בּוֹא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.came|Ref=NUM_22:7!8|MId=o040220070082|Strong=0935|Frame=A0:040220070021;040220070042;|Type=wayyiqtol 15 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_22:7!9|MId=o040220070091|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 16 בִּלְעָ֔ם בִּלְעָם PROPN _ _ 14 obl _ Gloss=Balaam|Ref=NUM_22:7!10|MId=o040220070101|Strong=1109 17-18 וַיְדַבְּר֥וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 18 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_22:7!11|MId=o040220070111|Strong=2050b 18 יְדַבְּר֥וּ דָבַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.spoke|Ref=NUM_22:7!11|MId=o040220070112|Strong=1696|Frame=A0:040220070021;040220070042;A1:040220070131;|Type=wayyiqtol 19-20 אֵלָ֖יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 אֵלָ֖י אֶל ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_22:7!12|MId=o040220070121|Strong=0413 20 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ Gloss=him|Ref=NUM_22:7!12|MId=o040220070122|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 21 דִּבְרֵ֥י דָּבָר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 18 obj _ Gloss=the.words|Ref=NUM_22:7!13|MId=o040220070131|Strong=1697 22 בָלָֽק בָּלָק PROPN _ _ 21 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Balak|Ref=NUM_22:7!14|MId=o040220070141|Strong=1111|SpaceAfter=No 23 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 22 punct _ Ref=NUM_22:7!14 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֵּלְכוּ *they went* | wayyiqtol · qal | זִקְנֵי *the elders* + זִקְנֵי *the elders* | | | | | יָּבֹאוּ *they came* | wayyiqtol · qal | זִקְנֵי *the elders* + זִקְנֵי *the elders* | | | | | יְדַבְּרוּ *they spoke* | wayyiqtol · piel | זִקְנֵי *the elders* + זִקְנֵי *the elders* | דִּבְרֵי *the words* | | | 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} וַאֲזָלוּ סָבֵי מוֹאָב וְסָבֵי מִדְיָן וְקִסְמַיָא בִּידֵיהוֹן וַאֲתוֹ לְוַת בִּלְעָם וּמַלִילוּ עִמֵיהּ פִּתְגָמֵי בָּלָק 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 the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spoke unto him the words of Balak.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.798/) **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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