2 Chronicles 2:17:52 Chr.2.17.W5TABWLC 2 Chronicles 2:16
אֲשֶׁ֣ר
asher
“who”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /ʔăˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- who
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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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
a-SHER
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER be-E-rets yis-ra-EL
- clause
va-yis-POR she-lo-MO KAL-ha-a-na-SHIM ha-ge-RIM a-SHER be-E-rets yis-ra-EL a-kha-RE has-se-FAR a-SHER se-fa-RAM da-VID a-VIV
- sentence
va-yis-POR she-lo-MO KAL-ha-a-na-SHIM ha-ge-RIM a-SHER be-E-rets yis-ra-EL a-kha-RE has-se-FAR a-SHER se-fa-RAM da-VID a-VIV va-yim-ma-TSE-u me-AT va-kha-mish-SIM E-lef u-she-LO-shet a-la-FIM ve-SHESH me-OT
Exegesis
Shlomo {שְׁלֹמֹה | šə-lō-mō} serves as subject, followed by the noun phrase kol-haenoshim hagerim {כָּל־הָאֱנוֹשִׁים הַגֵּרִים | kāl-hā-ʾĕ-nō-šîm hā-gê-rîm} ‘all the men, the sojourners’, which is specified by the relative clause asher berets yisrael {אֲשֶׁר בְּאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל | ʾă-šer bə-ʾe-reṣ yiś-rā-ʾĕl}, defining geographic scope.
The temporal clause acharei hasfar asher safar {אַחֲרֵי הַסְּפָר אֲשֶׁר סָפַר | ʾa-ḥa-rê hā-sə-pār ʾă-šer sā-par} ‘after the census which counted’ attributes the prior enumeration to David.
In context — 2 Chronicles 2:17
And Solomon counted all the men, the foreigners who were in the land of Israel after the census which his father David had conducted, and they were found to be 153,600.
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 2:17:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of 2 Chronicles 2:17, 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.2.17.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.2.17.W5.S1) and character.