1 Samuel 20:36:71 Sam.20.36.W7TAB
אֲשֶׁ֥ר
asher
“which or that”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /ʔăˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- which or that
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 a-no-KHI
- clause
va-YO-mer le-na-a-RO RUTS me-TSA NA et-ha-KHI-tsim a-SHER a-no-KHI mo-RE
- sentence
va-YO-mer le-na-a-RO RUTS me-TSA NA et-ha-KHI-tsim a-SHER a-no-KHI mo-RE ha-NA-ar RATS ve-HU-YA-ra ha-KHE-tsi le-ha-a-vi-RO
Exegesis
The direct-object marker et {אֵת־ | ʾēṯ} introduces ha-ḥiṣṣîm {הַחִצִּים | ha-ḥîṣṣîm} ‘the arrows’, defined by the relative pronoun asher {אֲשֶׁר | ăšer} ‘that’ and modified by yarotah {יָרוֹתָה | yā-rō-ṯâh} ‘I will shoot them’.
In context — 1 Samuel 20:36
Then he said to the boy , “Run and find the arrows that I will shoot.” And the boy ran, and he shot an arrow beyond him.
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 20:36:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 1 Samuel 20:36, 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 Sam.20.36.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.20.36.W7.S1) and character.