2 Kings 14:3:132 Kgs.14.3.W13TAB
עָשָֽׂה׃
asa
“he did”
- Transliteration
- A-SA
- Extended
- AA-SAA
- IPA
- /ʕaːˈsaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- he did
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
A-SA
- clause
ke-KHOL a-SHER-a-SA yo-ASH a-VIV A-SA
- sentence
va-ya-AS ha-ya-SHAR be-e-NEI ye-ho-VAH RAK LO ke-da-VID a-VIV ke-KHOL a-SHER-a-SA yo-ASH a-VIV A-SA
Exegesis
The concluding comparative ke-kol ’ăšer-ʿā-śāʾ {כְּכֹל אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂה | kə-kōl ’ă-šer-ʿā-śāʾ} “according to all that he did,” reinforced by the verb asa {עָשָׂה | ʿā-śāʾ}, emphasizes complete imitation of ancestral precedent.
Root and etymology
ʿ-š-hayin–shin–heh
“to do, to make”
In context — 2 Kings 14:3
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD , yet not like David his ancestor; he acted in line with all that his father Joash had done.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 14:3:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of 2 Kings 14:3, so the Hebrew word עָשָֽׂה׃ (asa) 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 Kgs.14.3.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.14.3.W13.S1) and character.