1 Samuel 15:20:101 Sam.15.20.W10TAB
אֲשֶׁר־שְׁלָחַ֣נִי
ashershelakhani
“sent me”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER-she-la-KHA-ni
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR-sheh-laa-KHAH-nih
- IPA
- /ʔăˈʃɛr.ʃəlaːˈħa.niː/
Meaning by language
- English
- sent me
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 | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-SHER-she-la-KHA-ni
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER-she-la-KHA-ni ye-ho-VAH
- clause
va-YO-mer sha-UL el-she-mu-EL a-SHER sha-MA-e-ti be-KOL ye-ho-VAH va-e-LEKH ba-DE-rekh a-SHER-she-la-KHA-ni ye-ho-VAH
- sentence
va-YO-mer sha-UL el-she-mu-EL a-SHER sha-MA-e-ti be-KOL ye-ho-VAH va-e-LEKH ba-DE-rekh a-SHER-she-la-KHA-ni ye-ho-VAH va-a-VI et-a-GAG ME-lekh a-ma-LEK ve-et-a-ma-LEK he-khe-RAM-e-ti
Exegesis
The relative clause asher-shelachani {אֲשֶׁר-שְׁלָחַנִי | ’ă-šer-šə-la-ḥă-nî} ‘which sent me’ precisely ties his journey to God’s commissioning.
Root and etymology
shin–lamed–chet
“to send”
In context — 1 Samuel 15:20
And Saul said to Samuel, “I fully obeyed the voice of the LORD and traveled the path on which the LORD sent me, and I brought back Agag the king of Amalek, and I utterly destroyed Amalek.”
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 15:20:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of 1 Samuel 15:20, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁר־שְׁלָחַ֣נִי (ashershelakhani) 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 Sam.15.20.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.15.20.W10.S1) and character.