2 Chronicles 33:7:42 Chr.33.7.W4TAB
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 a-SA
- clause
va-ya-SEM et-PE-sel ha-SE-mel a-SHER a-SA
- sentence
va-ya-SEM et-PE-sel ha-SE-mel a-SHER a-SA be-VET ha-e-lo-HIM a-SHER a-MAR e-lo-HIM el-da-VID ve-el-she-lo-MO ve-NO ba-BA-yit ha-ZE u-vi-ru-sha-LA-im a-SHER ba-KHAR-ti mi-KOL shiv-TE yis-ra-EL a-SIM et-she-MI le-e-LOM
Exegesis
The noun pesel {פֶּסֶל | pe-se-l} ‘idol’ is specified by the definite ha-sê-mel {הַסֶּמֶל | ha-sê-mel} ‘the image’ and bound to its maker through the relative clause ăšer ʿā-sāh {אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה | ă-šer ʿā-sāh} ‘which he had made’.
Root and etymology
א־שׁ־ר
“grove, pole”
In context — 2 Chronicles 33:7
And he placed the carved image that he had made in the house of God , of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.”
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 33:7:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 2 Chronicles 33:7, 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.33.7.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.33.7.W4.S1) and character.