--- title: Numbers 23:23 — For there is no enchantment with Jacob, neither is there any divinat… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: For there is no enchantment with Jacob, neither is there any divination with Israel; now is it said of Jacob and of Israel: 'What hath God wrought!' Who acts: divination, God. Numbers 23:23 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.23.23/) [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/) / 23:23 # Numbers 23:23 בְּמִדְבַּר **Who acts:** divination, God · **What happens:** be, say, wrought · **To what, where:** divination · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Numbers 23:23 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 — divination, God — and what happens in the verse to 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. כִּ֤י לֹא־נַ֙חַשׁ֙ בְּיַעֲקֹ֔ב וְלֹא־קֶ֖סֶם בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כָּעֵ֗ת יֵאָמֵ֤ר לְיַעֲקֹב֙ וּלְיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מַה־פָּ֖עַל אֵֽל׃ [For there is no enchantment with Jacob, neither is there any divination with Israel; now is it said of Jacob and of Israel: 'What hath God wrought!'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.859/) ## 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:834 # text = כִּ֤י לֹא־נַ֙חַשׁ֙ בְּיַעֲקֹ֔ב וְלֹא־קֶ֖סֶם בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כָּעֵ֗ת יֵאָמֵ֤ר לְיַעֲקֹב֙ וּלְיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מַה־פָּ֖עַל אֵֽל׃ # verse = NUM.23.23 1 כִּ֤י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 5 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=NUM_23:23!1|MId=o040230230011|Strong=3588 2 לֹא־ לֹא ADV _ _ 5 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=NUM_23:23!2|MId=o040230230021|Strong=3808|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 3 נַ֙חַשׁ֙ נַחַשׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Gloss=enchantment|Ref=NUM_23:23!3|MId=o040230230031|Strong=5173 4-5 בְּיַעֲקֹ֔ב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=[is].in|Ref=NUM_23:23!4|MId=o040230230041|Strong=0871a 5 יַעֲקֹ֔ב יַעֲקֹב PROPN _ _ 0 root _ Gloss=Jacob|Ref=NUM_23:23!4|MId=o040230230042|Strong=3290 6-7 וְלֹא־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_23:23!5|MId=o040230230051|Strong=2050b 7 לֹא־ לֹא ADV _ _ 10 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=NUM_23:23!5|MId=o040230230052|Strong=3808|Type=negative 8 קֶ֖סֶם קֶסֶם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Gloss=divination|Ref=NUM_23:23!6|MId=o040230230061|Strong=7081 9-10 בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=[is].in|Ref=NUM_23:23!7|MId=o040230230071|Strong=0871a 10 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 5 conj _ Gloss=Israel|Ref=NUM_23:23!7|MId=o040230230072|Strong=3478 11-13 כָּעֵ֗ת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 כָּ כְּ ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=about|Ref=NUM_23:23!8|MId=o040230230081|Strong=3509a 12 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 13 det _ Gloss=this|Ref=NUM_23:23!8|MId=o040230230081ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 13 עֵ֗ת עֵת NOUN _ Number=Sing 14 obl _ Gloss=time|Ref=NUM_23:23!8|MId=o040230230082|Strong=6256 14 יֵאָמֵ֤ר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 5 parataxis _ Gloss=it.will.be.said|Ref=NUM_23:23!9|MId=o040230230091|Strong=0559|Frame=A1:040230230131;|Type=yiqtol 15-16 לְיַעֲקֹב֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=of|Ref=NUM_23:23!10|MId=o040230230101|Strong=3807a 16 יַעֲקֹב֙ יַעֲקֹב PROPN _ _ 14 obl _ Gloss=Jacob|Ref=NUM_23:23!10|MId=o040230230102|Strong=3290 17-19 וּלְיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_23:23!11|MId=o040230230111|Strong=2050b 18 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=of|Ref=NUM_23:23!11|MId=o040230230112|Strong=3807a 19 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 16 conj _ Gloss=Israel|Ref=NUM_23:23!11|MId=o040230230113|Strong=3478 20 מַה־ מָה PRON _ PronType=Int 21 obj _ Gloss=what!|Ref=NUM_23:23!12|MId=o040230230121|Strong=4100|Type=interrogative|SpaceAfter=No 21 פָּ֖עַל פָּעַל VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 14 nsubj _ Gloss=has.he.done|Ref=NUM_23:23!13|MId=o040230230131|Strong=6466|Frame=A1:040230230121;A0:040230230141;|Type=qatal 22 אֵֽל אֵל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Gloss=God|Ref=NUM_23:23!14|MId=o040230230141|Strong=0410|SpaceAfter=No 23 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 22 punct _ Ref=NUM_23:23!14 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֵאָמֵר *it will be said* | yiqtol · niphal | | פָּעַל *has he done* | | | | פָּעַל *has he done* | qatal · qal | אֵֽל *God* | מַה־ *what!* | | | 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} אֲרֵי לָא נַחֲשַׁיָא צָבָן דְיִיטַב לִדְבֵית יַעֲקֹב וְאַף לָא קְסָמַיָא רְעַן בִּרְבוּת בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל כְּעִדַן יִתְאַמַר לְיַעֲקֹב וּלְיִשְׂרָאֵל מָה עֲבַד אֱלָהָא 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. [For there is no enchantment with Jacob, neither is there any divination with Israel; now is it said of Jacob and of Israel: 'What hath God wrought!'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.859/) **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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