2 Chronicles 18:1:32 Chr.18.1.W3TAB
עֹ֥שֶׁר
osher
“riches”
- Transliteration
- O-sher
- Extended
- OH-shehr
- IPA
- /ˈʕoːʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- riches
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| 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
O-sher
- phraseyour reading level
O-sher ve-kha-VOD
- clause
va-ye-HI li-yo-sha-FAT O-sher ve-kha-VOD la-ROV
- sentence
va-ye-HI li-yo-sha-FAT O-sher ve-kha-VOD la-ROV va-yit-kha-TEN le-akh-AV
Exegesis
The paired nouns osher vekavod {עֹשֶׁר וְכָב֖וֹד | ʿō·šer wə·ḵā·bôd} ‘wealth and honor’ are intensified by larov {לָרֹ֑ב | lā·rōv} ‘in abundance’, highlighting magnitude.
Root and etymology
ayin–shin–reshʿ–š–r
“to have wealth”
In context — 2 Chronicles 18:1
Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honor in abundance, and he linked himself by marriage to Ahab .
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 18:1:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 2 Chronicles 18:1, so the Hebrew word עֹ֥שֶׁר (osher) 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.18.1.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.18.1.W3.S1) and character.