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title: Numbers 32:15 — For if ye turn away from after Him, He will yet again leave them in… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: For if ye turn away from after Him, He will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and so ye will destroy all this people.' Who acts: ye, LORD. Numbers 32:15 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 32:15 בְּמִדְבַּר

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**Who acts:** ye, LORD · **What happens:** turn away, leave, destroy · **To what, where:** fathers, wilderness, people

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This is Numbers 32:15 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 — ye, LORD — and what happens in the verse to fathers, wilderness, people, 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.

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כִּ֤י תְשׁוּבֻן֙ מֵֽאַחֲרָ֔יו וְיָסַ֣ף ע֔וֹד לְהַנִּיח֖וֹ בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר וְשִֽׁחַתֶּ֖ם לְכָל־הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּֽה׃ס

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[For if ye turn away from after Him, He will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and so ye will destroy all this people.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1163/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:1129
# text = כִּ֤י תְשׁוּבֻן֙ מֵֽאַחֲרָ֔יו וְיָסַ֣ף ע֔וֹד לְהַנִּיח֖וֹ בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר וְשִֽׁחַתֶּ֖ם לְכָל־הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּֽה׃ס
# verse = NUM.32.15
1	כִּ֤י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	2	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=NUM_32:15!1|MId=o040320150011|Strong=3588
2-3	תְשׁוּבֻן֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
2	תְשׁוּבֻ	שׁוּב	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=2	0	root	_	Gloss=you|Ref=NUM_32:15!2|MId=o040320150021|Strong=7725|Frame=A0:040320140051;|Type=yiqtol
3	ן֙	נ	X	_	_	2	nmod	_	Gloss=will.turn.back|Ref=NUM_32:15!2|MId=o040320150022|Strong=4993b|Type=paragogic_nun
4-6	מֵֽאַחֲרָ֔יו	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
4	מֵֽ	מִן	ADP	_	_	6	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=NUM_32:15!3|MId=o040320150031|Strong=4480
5	אַחֲרָ֔י	אַחַר	ADP	_	_	6	case	_	Gloss=after|Ref=NUM_32:15!3|MId=o040320150032|Strong=0310
6	ו	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	Gloss=him|Ref=NUM_32:15!3|MId=o040320150033|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
7-8	וְיָסַ֣ף	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
7	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	8	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_32:15!4|MId=o040320150041|Strong=2050b
8	יָסַ֣ף	יָסַף	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=he.will.repeat|Ref=NUM_32:15!4|MId=o040320150042|Strong=3254|Frame=A0:040320140131;|Type=weqatal
9	ע֔וֹד	עוֹד	ADV	_	_	8	advmod	_	Gloss=again|Ref=NUM_32:15!5|MId=o040320150051|Strong=5750
10-12	לְהַנִּיח֖וֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	11	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_32:15!6|MId=o040320150061|Strong=3807a
11	הַנִּיח	נוח	VERB	_	HebBinyan=HIPHIL	8	xcomp	_	Gloss=leave|Ref=NUM_32:15!6|MId=o040320150062|Strong=5117|Frame=AA:040320140131;A0:040320150063;|Type=infinitive_construct
12	֖וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	Gloss=it|Ref=NUM_32:15!6|MId=o040320150063|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
13-15	בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	15	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=NUM_32:15!7|MId=o040320150071|Strong=0871a
14	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	15	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_32:15!7|MId=o040320150071ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
15	מִּדְבָּ֑ר	מִדְבָּר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Gloss=wilderness|Ref=NUM_32:15!7|MId=o040320150072|Strong=4057
16-17	וְשִֽׁחַתֶּ֖ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	17	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_32:15!8|MId=o040320150081|Strong=2050b
17	שִֽׁחַתֶּ֖ם	שָׁחַת	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur|Person=2	2	conj	_	Gloss=you.will.destroy|Ref=NUM_32:15!8|MId=o040320150082|Strong=7843|Frame=A0:040320140051;|Type=weqatal
18-19	לְכָל־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
18	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	19	case	_	Gloss=(to)|Ref=NUM_32:15!9|MId=o040320150091|Strong=3807a
19	כָל־	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Gloss=all|Ref=NUM_32:15!9|MId=o040320150092|Strong=3605
20-21	הָעָ֥ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
20	הָ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	21	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_32:15!10|MId=o040320150101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
21	עָ֥ם	עַם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	19	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=people|Ref=NUM_32:15!10|MId=o040320150102|Strong=5971
22-23	הַזֶּֽה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
22	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	23	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=NUM_32:15!11|MId=o040320150111|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
23	זֶּֽה	זֶה	DET	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	Gloss=this|Ref=NUM_32:15!11|MId=o040320150112|Strong=2088|Type=demonstrative
24	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	23	punct	_	Ref=NUM_32:15!11|SpaceAfter=No
25	ס	ס	PUNCT	_	_	23	punct	_	Ref=NUM_32:15!11
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no
- indirect: yes

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| תְשׁוּבֻ *you* | yiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |
| יָסַף *he will repeat* | weqatal · qal |  |  |  |  |
| הַנִּיח *leave* | infinitive construct · hiphil | וֹ *it* |  |  |  |
| שִֽׁחַתֶּם *you will destroy* | weqatal · piel |  |  |  |  |

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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}

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אֲרֵי תְתוּבוּן מִבָּתַר דַחַלְתֵּיהּ וְיוֹסִיף עוֹד לְאַחֲרוּתְהוֹן בְּמַדְבְּרָא וּתְחַבְּלוּן לְכָל עַמָא הָדֵין

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [For if ye turn away from after Him, He will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and so ye will destroy all this people.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1163/)

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**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).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:NUM:1129`.

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