--- title: Numbers 23:24 — Behold a people that riseth up as a lioness, and as a lion doth he l… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Behold a people that riseth up as a lioness, and as a lion doth he lift himself up; he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain. Who acts: you, people, God. 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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, people, God — and what happens in the verse to people, God, blood, 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. הֶן־עָם֙ כְּלָבִ֣יא יָק֔וּם וְכַאֲרִ֖י יִתְנַשָּׂ֑א לֹ֤א יִשְׁכַּב֙ עַד־יֹ֣אכַל טֶ֔רֶף וְדַם־חֲלָלִ֖ים יִשְׁתֶּֽה׃ [Behold a people that riseth up as a lioness, and as a lion doth he lift himself up; he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.860/) ## 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:835 # text = הֶן־עָם֙ כְּלָבִ֣יא יָק֔וּם וְכַאֲרִ֖י יִתְנַשָּׂ֑א לֹ֤א יִשְׁכַּב֙ עַד־יֹ֣אכַל טֶ֔רֶף וְדַם־חֲלָלִ֖ים יִשְׁתֶּֽה׃ # verse = NUM.23.24 1 הֶן־ הֵן INTJ _ _ 5 discourse _ Gloss=there!|Ref=NUM_23:24!1|MId=o040230240011|Strong=2005|Type=interjection|SpaceAfter=No 2 עָם֙ עַם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Gloss=a.people|Ref=NUM_23:24!2|MId=o040230240021|Strong=5971 3-4 כְּלָבִ֣יא _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 כְּ כְּ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=like|Ref=NUM_23:24!3|MId=o040230240031|Strong=3509a 4 לָבִ֣יא לָבִיא NOUN _ Number=Sing 5 obl _ Gloss=a.lion|Ref=NUM_23:24!3|MId=o040230240032|Strong=3833 5 יָק֔וּם קוּם VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=it.rises|Ref=NUM_23:24!4|MId=o040230240041|Strong=6965|Frame=A0:040230240021;|Type=yiqtol 6-8 וְכַאֲרִ֖י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_23:24!5|MId=o040230240051|Strong=2050b 7 כַ כְּ ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=like|Ref=NUM_23:24!5|MId=o040230240052|Strong=3509a 8 אֲרִ֖י אֲרִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 obl _ Gloss=a.lion|Ref=NUM_23:24!5|MId=o040230240053|Strong=0738 9 יִתְנַשָּׂ֑א נָשָׂא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HITHPAEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 5 conj _ Gloss=it.lifts.itself.up|Ref=NUM_23:24!6|MId=o040230240061|Strong=5375|Frame=A0:040230240021;|Type=yiqtol 10 לֹ֤א לֹא ADV _ _ 11 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=NUM_23:24!7|MId=o040230240071|Strong=3808|Type=negative 11 יִשְׁכַּב֙ שָׁכַב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 5 parataxis _ Gloss=it.will.lie.down|Ref=NUM_23:24!8|MId=o040230240081|Strong=7901|Frame=A0:040230240021;|Type=yiqtol 12 עַד־ עַד ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=until|Ref=NUM_23:24!9|MId=o040230240091|Strong=5704|SpaceAfter=No 13 יֹ֣אכַל אָכַל VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 11 parataxis _ Gloss=it.will.devour|Ref=NUM_23:24!10|MId=o040230240101|Strong=0398|Frame=A0:040230240021;A1:040230240111;|Type=yiqtol 14 טֶ֔רֶף טֶרֶף NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 obj _ Gloss=prey|Ref=NUM_23:24!11|MId=o040230240111|Strong=2964 15-16 וְדַם־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 18 cc _ Gloss=and.[the]|Ref=NUM_23:24!12|MId=o040230240121|Strong=2050b 16 דַם־ דָּם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 obj _ Gloss=blood|Ref=NUM_23:24!12|MId=o040230240122|Strong=1818 17 חֲלָלִ֖ים חָלָל ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 16 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.[those].slain|Ref=NUM_23:24!13|MId=o040230240131|Strong=2491|Type=adjective 18 יִשְׁתֶּֽה שָׁתָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 13 conj _ Gloss=it.will.drink|Ref=NUM_23:24!14|MId=o040230240141|Strong=8354|Frame=A0:040230240021;A1:040230240122;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No 19 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 18 punct _ Ref=NUM_23:24!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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יָקוּם *it rises* | yiqtol · qal | עָם *a people* | | | | | יִתְנַשָּׂא *it lifts itself up* | yiqtol · hithpael | עָם *a people* | | | | | **not** יִשְׁכַּב *it will lie down* | yiqtol · qal | עָם *a people* | | | | | יֹאכַל *it will devour* | yiqtol · qal | עָם *a people* | טֶרֶף *prey* | | | | יִשְׁתֶּֽה *it will drink* | yiqtol · qal | עָם *a people* | דַם־ *blood* | | | 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} הָא עַמָא כְּלֵיתָא שָׁרֵי וּכְאַרְיָא יִתְנַטֵל לָא יִשְׁרֵי בְאַרְעֵיהּ עַד דְיִקְטוֹל קְטוֹל וְנִכְסֵי עֲמְמַיָא יֵירָת 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. [Behold a people that riseth up as a lioness, and as a lion doth he lift himself up; he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.860/) **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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