2 Chronicles 10:2:72 Chr.10.2.W7TAB
אֲשֶׁ֣ר
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 ba-RAKH
- clause
va-ye-HI kish-MO-a ya-ra-VA-m ben-ne-VAT ve-HU be-mits-RA-yim a-SHER ba-RAKH mip-pe-NE she-lo-MO ha-ME-lekh
- sentence
va-ye-HI kish-MO-a ya-ra-VA-m ben-ne-VAT ve-HU be-mits-RA-yim a-SHER ba-RAKH mip-pe-NE she-lo-MO ha-ME-lekh va-ya-SHAV ya-ra-VA-m mim-mits-RA-yim
Exegesis
A relative clause introduced by asher {אֲשֶׁר | ’ă·šer} ‘who’ explains his presence there: barach {בָּרַח | bārāḥ} ‘he fled’ from amid Solomon the king.
In context — 2 Chronicles 10:2
And it happened when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard and he was in Egypt , where he had fled from before Solomon the king, that Jeroboam returned from Egypt.
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 10:2:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 2 Chronicles 10:2, 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 2 Chr.10.2.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.10.2.W7.S1) and character.