2 Kings 15:18:112 Kgs.15.18.W11TAB
אֲשֶׁר־הֶחֱטִ֥יא
asherhekheti
“which he caused to sin”
- Transliteration
- a-sher-he-khe-TI
- Extended
- ah-shehr-heh-kheh-TEE
- IPA
- /ʔăʃɛr.hɛħɛˈtˤiːʔ/
Meaning by language
- English
- which he caused to sin
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 | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Seghol | reduced 'eh' | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-sher-he-khe-TI
- phraseyour reading level
a-sher-he-khe-TI et-yis-ra-EL
- clause
LO SAR me-AL kha-to-OT ya-ra-ve-AM ben-ne-VAT a-sher-he-khe-TI et-yis-ra-EL kol-ya-MAV
- sentence
va-ya-AS ha-RA be-e-NE ye-ho-VAH LO SAR me-AL kha-to-OT ya-ra-ve-AM ben-ne-VAT a-sher-he-khe-TI et-yis-ra-EL kol-ya-MAV
Exegesis
The relative asher-hecheti {אֲשֶׁר־הֶחֱטִ֥יא | ʾăšer-heḥĕṭîʾ} ‘who caused to sin’ uses the Hiphil stem to assign culpability for leading the nation into wrongdoing.
Root and etymology
ḥ-t-ʾchet–tet–aleph
“to miss the mark, cause to sin”
In context — 2 Kings 15:18
And he did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD and he did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, all his days .
About this coordinate
2 Kings 15:18:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of 2 Kings 15:18, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁר־הֶחֱטִ֥יא (asherhekheti) 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.15.18.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.15.18.W11.S1) and character.