--- title: Numbers 35:18 — Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in the hand, whereby a man… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death. Who acts: murderer, man. Numbers 35:18 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.35.18/) [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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/35/) / 35:18 # Numbers 35:18 בְּמִדְבַּר **Who acts:** murderer, man · **What happens:** smite, die, be, put · **To what, where:** person, hand, murderer This is Numbers 35:18 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 — murderer, man — and what happens in the verse to person, hand, murderer, 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. א֡וֹ בִּכְלִ֣י עֵֽץ־יָד֩ אֲשֶׁר־יָמ֨וּת בּ֥וֹ הִכָּ֛הוּ וַיָּמֹ֖ת רֹצֵ֣חַֽ ה֑וּא מ֥וֹת יוּמַ֖ת הָרֹצֵֽחַ׃ [Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1294/) ## 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:1259 # text = א֡וֹ בִּכְלִ֣י עֵֽץ־יָד֩ אֲשֶׁר־יָמ֨וּת בּ֥וֹ הִכָּ֛הוּ וַיָּמֹ֖ת רֹצֵ֣חַֽ ה֑וּא מ֥וֹת יוּמַ֖ת הָרֹצֵֽחַ׃ # verse = NUM.35.18 1 א֡וֹ אוֹ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=or|Ref=NUM_35:18!1|MId=o040350180011|Strong=0176 2-3 בִּכְלִ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 בִּ בְּ ADP _ _ 3 case _ Gloss=with|Ref=NUM_35:18!2|MId=o040350180021|Strong=0871a 3 כְלִ֣י כְּלִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 dislocated _ Gloss=an.instrument|Ref=NUM_35:18!2|MId=o040350180022|Strong=3627 4 עֵֽץ־ עֵץ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.wood|Ref=NUM_35:18!3|MId=o040350180031|Strong=6086|SpaceAfter=No 5 יָד֩ יָד NOUN _ Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Gloss=of.hand|Ref=NUM_35:18!4|MId=o040350180041|Strong=3027 6 אֲשֶׁר־ אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 7 mark _ Gloss=which|Ref=NUM_35:18!5|MId=o040350180051|Strong=0834|Type=relative|SpaceAfter=No 7 יָמ֨וּת מוּת VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 3 acl:relcl _ Gloss=someone.will.die|Ref=NUM_35:18!6|MId=o040350180061|Strong=4191|Frame=A0:;A1:040350150151;|Type=yiqtol 8-9 בּ֥וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 בּ בְּ ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=by|Ref=NUM_35:18!7|MId=o040350180071|Strong=0871a 9 ֥וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ Gloss=it|Ref=NUM_35:18!7|MId=o040350180072|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 10-11 הִכָּ֛הוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 הִכָּ֛ה נָכָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he|Ref=NUM_35:18!8|MId=o040350180081|Strong=5221|Frame=A0:;A1:040350180082;|Type=qatal 11 וּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ Gloss=struck.him.down|Ref=NUM_35:18!8|MId=o040350180082|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 12-13 וַיָּמֹ֖ת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 13 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_35:18!9|MId=o040350180091|Strong=2050b 13 יָּמֹ֖ת מוּת VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 10 conj _ Gloss=he.died|Ref=NUM_35:18!9|MId=o040350180092|Strong=4191|Frame=A0:040350150151;|Type=wayyiqtol 14 רֹצֵ֣חַֽ רָצַח VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ Gloss=[is].a.killer|Ref=NUM_35:18!10|MId=o040350180101|Strong=7523|Type=participle_active 15 ה֑וּא הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ Gloss=he|Ref=NUM_35:18!11|MId=o040350180111|Strong=1931|Type=personal 16 מ֥וֹת מוּת VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 17 obl:npmod _ Gloss=surely.(die)|Ref=NUM_35:18!12|MId=o040350180121|Strong=4191|Type=infinitive_absolute 17 יוּמַ֖ת מוּת VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HOPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 10 parataxis _ Gloss=he.will.be.put.to.death|Ref=NUM_35:18!13|MId=o040350180131|Strong=4191|Frame=A1:040350180142;|Type=yiqtol 18-19 הָרֹצֵֽחַ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 19 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_35:18!14|MId=o040350180141|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 19 רֹצֵֽחַ רָצַח VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Gloss=killer|Ref=NUM_35:18!14|MId=o040350180142|Strong=7523|Type=participle_active 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=NUM_35:18!14 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יָמוּת *someone will die* | yiqtol · qal | | | | | | הִכָּה *he* | qatal · hiphil | | וּ *struck him down* | | | | יָּמֹת *he died* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | יוּמַת *he will be put to death* | yiqtol · hophal | | רֹצֵֽחַ *killer* | | | 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} אוֹ בְּמָאן דְעָא דְמִתְנָסֵב בִּידָא דְהִיא כְמִסַת דִי יְמוּת בֵּה מְחָהִי וְקַטְּלֵהּ קָטוֹלָא הוּא אִתְקְטָלָא יִתְקְטַל קָטוֹלָא 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. [Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1294/) **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:1259`. - ← previous: [Numbers 35:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.17/) - next →: [Numbers 35:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.35.19/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/35/)