2 Chronicles 12:5:72 Chr.12.5.W7TAB
אֲשֶׁר־נֶאֶסְפ֥וּ
asherneesefu
“who had been gathered”
- Transliteration
- a-sher-ne-e-se-FU
- Extended
- ah-shehr-neh-ehs-fee-OO
- IPA
- /ʔăʃɛr.nɛʔɛsˈfuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- who had been gathered
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 | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-sher-ne-e-se-FU
- phraseyour reading level
a-sher-ne-e-se-FU el-ye-ru-sha-LIM
- clause
u-she-ma-YA ha-na-VI BA el-re-kha-ve-AM ve-sa-RE ye-hu-DA a-sher-ne-e-se-FU el-ye-ru-sha-LIM mip-ne shi-SHAK
- sentence
u-she-ma-YA ha-na-VI BA el-re-kha-ve-AM ve-sa-RE ye-hu-DA a-sher-ne-e-se-FU el-ye-ru-sha-LIM mip-ne shi-SHAK va-yo-MER la-HEM ko-a-MAR Ye-ho-VAH a-TEM a-zav-TEM o-TI ve-af-a-NI a-zav-TI et-khem be-YAD-shi-SHAK
Exegesis
The relative clause asher-neesfu {אֲשֶׁר־נֶאֶסְפ֥וּ | ʾăšer-neʾespû} ‘who had assembled’ narrows the audience and is paired with the causal phrase mipnei shishaq {מִפְּנֵ֣י שִׁישָׁ֑ק | mippenê šîšāq} ‘because of Shishak,’ foregrounding threat-driven circumstances.
Root and etymology
ש־ר
“to rule”
In context — 2 Chronicles 12:5
And Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the officials of Judah who had assembled in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, “Thus says the LORD : ‘You have abandoned Me, and I have also abandoned you into the hand of Shishak.’”
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 12:5:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 2 Chronicles 12:5, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁר־נֶאֶסְפ֥וּ (asherneesefu) 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.12.5.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.12.5.W7.S1) and character.