--- title: Numbers 23:4 — And God met Balaam; and he said unto Him: 'I have prepared the seven… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And God met Balaam; and he said unto Him: 'I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.' Who acts: God, Balaam, I. Numbers 23:4 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.23.4/) [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/) / 23:4 # Numbers 23:4 בְּמִדְבַּר **Who acts:** God, Balaam, I · **What happens:** meet, say, prepare, offer up · **To what, where:** Balaam, seven altars, bullock, altar · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Numbers 23:4 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 — God, Balaam, I — and what happens in the verse to Balaam, seven altars, bullock, altar, 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. וַיִּקָּ֥ר אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶל־בִּלְעָ֑ם וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֗יו אֶת־שִׁבְעַ֤ת הַֽמִּזְבְּחֹת֙ עָרַ֔כְתִּי וָאַ֛עַל פָּ֥ר וָאַ֖יִל בַּמִּזְבֵּֽחַ׃ [And God met Balaam; and he said unto Him: 'I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.836/) ## 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:815 # text = וַיִּקָּ֥ר אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶל־בִּלְעָ֑ם וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֗יו אֶת־שִׁבְעַ֤ת הַֽמִּזְבְּחֹת֙ עָרַ֔כְתִּי וָאַ֛עַל פָּ֥ר וָאַ֖יִל בַּמִּזְבֵּֽחַ׃ # verse = NUM.23.4 1-2 וַיִּקָּ֥ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_23:4!1|MId=o040230040011|Strong=2050b 2 יִּקָּ֥ר קָרָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.met|Ref=NUM_23:4!1|MId=o040230040012|Strong=7136|Frame=A0:040230040021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Gloss=God|Ref=NUM_23:4!2|MId=o040230040021|Strong=0430 4 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=(to)|Ref=NUM_23:4!3|MId=o040230040031|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 5 בִּלְעָ֑ם בִּלְעָם PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Balaam|Ref=NUM_23:4!4|MId=o040230040041|Strong=1109 6-7 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_23:4!5|MId=o040230040051|Strong=2050b 7 יֹּ֣אמֶר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.said|Ref=NUM_23:4!5|MId=o040230040052|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:040230040041;|Type=wayyiqtol 8-9 אֵלָ֗יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 אֵלָ֗י אֶל ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_23:4!6|MId=o040230040061|Strong=0413 9 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ Gloss=him|Ref=NUM_23:4!6|MId=o040230040062|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 10 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=NUM_23:4!7|MId=o040230040071|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 11 שִׁבְעַ֤ת שֶׁבַע NUM _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 nummod _ Gloss=the.seven|Ref=NUM_23:4!8|MId=o040230040081|Strong=7651|Type=cardinal_number 12-13 הַֽמִּזְבְּחֹת֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 הַֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 13 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_23:4!9|MId=o040230040091|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 13 מִּזְבְּחֹת֙ מִזְבֵּחַ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 14 obj _ Gloss=altars|Ref=NUM_23:4!9|MId=o040230040092|Strong=4196 14 עָרַ֔כְתִּי עָרַךְ VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 7 ccomp _ Gloss=I.have.arranged|Ref=NUM_23:4!10|MId=o040230040101|Strong=6186|Frame=A0:040230040041;A1:040230040092;|Type=qatal 15-16 וָאַ֛עַל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וָ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_23:4!11|MId=o040230040111|Strong=2050b 16 אַ֛עַל עָלָה VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=1 14 conj _ Gloss=I.have.offered.up|Ref=NUM_23:4!11|MId=o040230040112|Strong=5927|Frame=AA:040230040041;A0:040230040121;040230040132;|Type=wayyiqtol 17 פָּ֥ר פַּר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 obj _ Gloss=a.young.bull|Ref=NUM_23:4!12|MId=o040230040121|Strong=6499 18-19 וָאַ֖יִל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 וָ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_23:4!13|MId=o040230040131|Strong=2050b 19 אַ֖יִל אַיִל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 17 conj _ Gloss=a.ram|Ref=NUM_23:4!13|MId=o040230040132|Strong=0352 20-22 בַּמִּזְבֵּֽחַ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 בַּ בְּ ADP _ _ 22 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=NUM_23:4!14|MId=o040230040141|Strong=0871a 21 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 22 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_23:4!14|MId=o040230040141ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 22 מִּזְבֵּֽחַ מִזְבֵּחַ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 obl _ Gloss=altar|Ref=NUM_23:4!14|MId=o040230040142|Strong=4196 23 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 22 punct _ Ref=NUM_23:4!14 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִּקָּר *he met* | wayyiqtol · niphal | אֱלֹהִים *God* | | | | | יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | בִּלְעָם *Balaam* | | | | | עָרַכְתִּי *I have arranged* | qatal · qal | בִּלְעָם *Balaam* | מִּזְבְּחֹת *altars* | | | | אַעַל *I have offered up* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | פָּר *a young bull* + אַיִל *a ram* | | | בִּלְעָם *Balaam* | 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} וְעָרַע מֵימַר מִן קֳדָם יְיָ לְוַת בִּלְעָם וַאֲמַר לֵיהּ יַת שַׁבְעָא מַדְבְּחִין סְדָרִית וְאַסֵקִית תּוֹר וּדְכַר עַל כָּל מַדְבְּחָא 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 God met Balaam; and he said unto Him: 'I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.836/) **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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