1 Kings 13:26:31 Kgs.13.26.W3TAB
אֲשֶׁ֣ר
asher
“who”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /ʔăˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- who
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-SHER
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER he-shi-VO min-ha-DE-rekh
- clause
va-yish-MA ha-na-VI a-SHER he-shi-VO min-ha-DE-rekh va-yo-MER ISH ha-e-lo-HIM HU a-SHER ma-RA et-PI ye-ho-VAH
- sentence
va-yish-MA ha-na-VI a-SHER he-shi-VO min-ha-DE-rekh va-yo-MER ISH ha-e-lo-HIM HU a-SHER ma-RA et-PI ye-ho-VAH va-yit-te-NE-hu ye-ho-VAH la-ar-YE va-yish-be-RE-HU va-ye-mi-TE-HU kid-VAR ye-ho-VAH a-SHER dib-BER-LO
Exegesis
The formulaic designation hanavi asher heshivo min-haderekh {הַנָּבִיא אֲשֶׁר הֱשִׁיבוֹ מִן־הַדֶּרֶךְ | hannāḇîʾ ʾăšer hešîḇôw min-hadderēḵ} ‘the prophet who had brought him back from the way’ uses the relative pronoun asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾăšer}.
The emphatic copula hu {הוּא | hūʾ} in ish haelohim hu asher marah et-pi YHWH {אִישׁ הָאֱלֹהִים הוּא אֲשֶׁר מָרָה אֶת־פִּי יְהוָה | ʾîš hāʼĕlōhîm hūʾ ʾăšer marāh ʾet-pî Yəhōwāh} ‘It is the man of God who rebelled against the mouth of the LORD’ highlights the subject.
The concluding clause kidvar YHWH asher diber-lo {כִּדְבַר יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר־לֽוֹ | kîdᵉḇār Yəhōwāh ʾăšer dibber-lô} ‘according to the word of the LORD which He spoke to him’ frames fulfillment of divine decree. The Hebrew VSO structure is rendered in natural English SVO order to preserve readability while maintaining the sequence of theological motifs.
In context — 1 Kings 13:26
When the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard it, he said, “It is the man of God who rebelled against the mouth of the LORD . So the LORD gave him over to the lion, and the lion mauled him and killed him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke to him.”
About this coordinate
1 Kings 13:26:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 1 Kings 13:26, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁ֣ר (asher) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 1 Kgs.13.26.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.13.26.W3.S1) and character.