--- title: Numbers 23:10 — Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, or numbered the stock of Israel?… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, or numbered the stock of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let mine end be like his! Who acts: you, me, end, righteous. Numbers 23:10 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.23.10/) [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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/23/) / 23:10 # Numbers 23:10 בְּמִדְבַּר **Who acts:** you, me, end, righteous · **What happens:** count, number, stock, let, die, be · **To what, where:** dust, stock, Israel, me, death This is Numbers 23:10 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, me, end, righteous — and what happens in the verse to dust, stock, Israel, me, death, 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. מִ֤י מָנָה֙ עֲפַ֣ר יַעֲקֹ֔ב וּמִסְפָּ֖ר אֶת־רֹ֣בַע יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל תָּמֹ֤ת נַפְשִׁי֙ מ֣וֹת יְשָׁרִ֔ים וּתְהִ֥י אַחֲרִיתִ֖י כָּמֹֽהוּ׃ [Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, or numbered the stock of Israel?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.843/) [Let me die the death of the righteous, and let mine end be like his!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.844/) ## 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:821 # text = מִ֤י מָנָה֙ עֲפַ֣ר יַעֲקֹ֔ב וּמִסְפָּ֖ר אֶת־רֹ֣בַע יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל תָּמֹ֤ת נַפְשִׁי֙ מ֣וֹת יְשָׁרִ֔ים וּתְהִ֥י אַחֲרִיתִ֖י כָּמֹֽהוּ׃ # verse = NUM.23.10 1 מִ֤י מִי PRON _ PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ Gloss=who?|Ref=NUM_23:10!1|MId=o040230100011|Strong=4310|Type=interrogative 2 מָנָה֙ מָנָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=has.he.counted|Ref=NUM_23:10!2|MId=o040230100021|Strong=4487|Frame=A0:040230100011;A1:040230100031;040230100052;|Type=qatal 3 עֲפַ֣ר עָפָר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 obj _ Gloss=the.dust|Ref=NUM_23:10!3|MId=o040230100031|Strong=6083 4 יַעֲקֹ֔ב יַעֲקֹב PROPN _ _ 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Jacob|Ref=NUM_23:10!4|MId=o040230100041|Strong=3290 5-6 וּמִסְפָּ֖ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 6 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_23:10!5|MId=o040230100051|Strong=2050b 6 מִסְפָּ֖ר מִסְפָּר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 conj _ Gloss=a.number|Ref=NUM_23:10!5|MId=o040230100052|Strong=4557 7 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=NUM_23:10!6|MId=o040230100061|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 8 רֹ֣בַע רֹבַע NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 advmod _ Gloss=the.fourth.part|Ref=NUM_23:10!7|MId=o040230100071|Strong=7255a 9 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 8 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Israel|Ref=NUM_23:10!8|MId=o040230100081|Strong=3478 10 תָּמֹ֤ת מוּת VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 parataxis _ Gloss=let.it.die|Ref=NUM_23:10!9|MId=o040230100091|Strong=4191|Frame=A0:040230100101;|Type=jussive 11-12 נַפְשִׁי֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 נַפְשׁ נֶפֶשׁ NOUN _ Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Gloss=self|Ref=NUM_23:10!10|MId=o040230100101|Strong=5315 12 ִי֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=NUM_23:10!10|MId=o040230100102|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 13 מ֣וֹת מָוֶת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 obl _ Gloss=[the].death|Ref=NUM_23:10!11|MId=o040230100111|Strong=4194 14 יְשָׁרִ֔ים יָשָׁר ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 13 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.upright.[people]|Ref=NUM_23:10!12|MId=o040230100121|Strong=3477|Type=adjective 15-16 וּתְהִ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 20 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_23:10!13|MId=o040230100131|Strong=2050b 16 תְהִ֥י הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 20 cop _ Gloss=let.it.be|Ref=NUM_23:10!13|MId=o040230100132|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:040230100141;|Type=jussive 17-18 אַחֲרִיתִ֖י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 אַחֲרִית אַחֲרִית NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ Gloss=end|Ref=NUM_23:10!14|MId=o040230100141|Strong=0319 18 ִ֖י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=NUM_23:10!14|MId=o040230100142|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 19-20 כָּמֹֽהוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 כָּמֹֽ כְּמוֹ ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=like|Ref=NUM_23:10!15|MId=o040230100151|Strong=3644 20 הוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 conj _ Gloss=his|Ref=NUM_23:10!15|MId=o040230100152|Strong=1930a|Type=pronominal 21 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 20 punct _ Ref=NUM_23:10!15 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | מָנָה *has he counted* | qatal · qal | מִי *who?* | עֲפַר *the dust* + מִסְפָּר *a number* | | | | תָּמֹת *let it die* | jussive · qal | נַפְשׁ *self* | | | | | תְהִי *let it be* | jussive · qal | אַחֲרִית *end* | | | | 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} מָן יֵיכוֹל לְמִמְנֵי דַעַדְקַיָא דְבֵית יַעֲקֹב דְאָמִיר עֲלֵיהוֹן יִסְגוּן כְּעַפְרָא דְאַרְעָא אוֹ חֲדָא מֵאַרְבַּע מַשִׁרְיָתָא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל תְּמוּת נַפְשִׁי מוֹתָא דְקַשִׁיטוֹהִי וּתְהֵי סוֹפִי כְּוַתְהוֹן 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. [Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, or numbered the stock of Israel?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.843/) 2. [Let me die the death of the righteous, and let mine end be like his!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.844/) **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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