1 Kings 14:22:131 Kgs.14.22.W13TAB
אֲשֶׁ֥ר
asher
“which”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /ʔăˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- which
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 kha-TA-u
- clause
va-ye-ka-NE-u O-to mi-KOL a-SHER A-su a-vo-TAM be-kha-to-TAM a-SHER kha-TA-u
- sentence
va-ya-AS ye-hu-DA ha-RA be-e-NE ye-ho-VAH va-ye-ka-NE-u O-to mi-KOL a-SHER A-su a-vo-TAM be-kha-to-TAM a-SHER kha-TA-u
Exegesis
The comparative construction miḵōl ʾăšer ʿāsû ʾāḇōtām {מִכֹּל אֲשֶׁר עָשׂוּ אֲבֹתָ֔ם | miḵōl ʾăšer ʿāsû ʾāḇōtām} underscores ancestral parallelism.
The clause bəḥaṭṭôtām ʾăšer ḥāṭā’û {בְּחַטֹּאתָם אֲשֶׁר חָטָאוּ | bəḥaṭṭôtām ʾăšer ḥāṭā’û} preserves the causal link between their sins and divine jealousy, reflecting covenant infidelity.
Root and etymology
א־שׁ־ר
“Asherah pole”
In context — 1 Kings 14:22
And Judah did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD , and they provoked Him to jealousy more than all that their fathers had done, by their sins with which they sinned .
About this coordinate
1 Kings 14:22:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of 1 Kings 14:22, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁ֥ר (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.14.22.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.14.22.W13.S1) and character.