וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֶל־קַ֔יִן אֵ֖י הֶ֣בֶל אָחִ֑יךָ וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ לֹ֣א יָדַ֔עְתִּי הֲשֹׁמֵ֥ר אָחִ֖י אָנֹֽכִי׃
Debug: verse number 89And the lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
/wa-y-yṓmer ʾădōnāy ʾel qáyin ʾē hével ʾāḥī́xā wa-y-yṓmer lō yādáʿtī hă šōmḗr ʾāḥī́ ʾānṓxī /
Gloss translation
- wa
- and
- cnj
- -y-yṓmer
- say
- v √qal wy III m sg
- ʾădōnāy
- YHWH
- pn m sg abs
- ʾel
- to
- prep
- qáyin
- Kain
- pn m sg abs
- ʾē
- where
- ptcl?
- hével
- Abel
- pn m sg abs
- ʾāḥī́xā
- brother
- n m sg abs + II m sg
- wa
- and
- cnj
- -y-yṓmer
- say
- v √qal wy III m sg
- lō
- not
- ptcl—
- yādáʿtī
- know
- v √qal perf I sg
- hă
- [interrogative]
- ptcl?
- šōmḗr
- keep
- v √qal part m sg abs
- ʾāḥī́
- brother
- n m sg abs + I sg
- ʾānṓxī
- i
- prop I sg
Syntactic structures
- Verbal clausesWayyiqtol-X clause
- Conjunction
Conjunctive phrase- wa
- Predicate
Verbal phrase- yyōˈmer
- Subject
Proper-noun phrase - [yᵊhwāh]
- Complement
Prepositional phrase - ʔel qaˈyin
- Conjunction
- Nominal clausesNominal clause
- Predicate complement
Interrogative phrase- ʔê
- Subject
Proper-noun phrase - heˈvel ʔāḥîˈḵā
- Predicate complement
- Verbal clausesWayyiqtol-null clause
- Conjunction
Conjunctive phrase- wa
- Predicate
Verbal phrase- yyōˈmer
- Conjunction
- Verbal clausesx-qatal-null clause
- Negation
Negative phrase- lō
- Predicate
Verbal phrase- yāḏaˈʕtî
- Negation
- Verbal clausesParticiple clause
- Question
Interrogative phrase- hᵃ
- Predicate complement
Verbal phrase- šōmēˈr
- Object
Nominal phrase - ʔāḥîˈ
- Subject
Personal pronoun phrase - ʔānōˈḵî
- Question