2 Chronicles 8:4:72 Chr.8.4.W7TAB
אֲשֶׁ֥ר
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-NA
- clause
ve-ET kol-a-RE ha-mis-ke-NOT a-SHER ba-NA ba-kha-MAT
- sentence
va-yi-VEN et-tad-MOR ba-mid-BAHR ve-ET kol-a-RE ha-mis-ke-NOT a-SHER ba-NA ba-kha-MAT
Exegesis
The relative clause asher banah bachamat {אֲשֶׁר בָּנָה בַּחֲמָת | ʾăšer bānâ baḥāmat} ‘which he had built in Hamath’ postpositively modifies the store-cities, clarifying their prior establishment. English renders the sequence as simple past, preserving the Hebrew’s emphasis on sequential accomplishment and geographic specificity.
Root and etymology
shin–reshshin–resh
“prince, chief, official”
In context — 2 Chronicles 8:4
And he built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the store-cities, which he had built in Hamath .
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 8:4:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 2 Chronicles 8:4, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁ֥ר (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.8.4.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.8.4.W7.S1) and character.