2 Kings 17:4:192 Kgs.17.4.W19TAB
וַיַּאַסְרֵ֖הוּ
vayaasrehu
“and he bound him”
- Transliteration
- va-ya-as-re-HU
- Extended
- vah-yah-ahs-reh-HOO
- IPA
- /vaj.jaʔasˈreː.huː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he bound him
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-ya-as-re-HU
- clause
va-ya-tsre-HU ME-lekh a-SHUR va-ya-as-re-HU BET KE-le
- sentence
va-yim-TSA ME-lekh-a-SHUR be-ho-SHE-a KE-sher a-SHER sha-LAKH mal-e-KHIM el-so ME-lekh-mits-RA-yim ve-lo-he-e-LA min-KHA le-ME-lekh a-SHUR ke-sha-NA ve-sha-NA va-ya-tsre-HU ME-lekh a-SHUR va-ya-as-re-HU BET KE-le
Exegesis
Finally, the successive imperatives vayyaʿaṣrehu {וַיַּעְצְרֵ֙הוּ֙ | wayya·ʿaṣre-hû} and vayyaʾasrehu {וַיַּאַסְרֵ֖הוּ | wayya·ʾasre-hû} intensify the king’s response from arrest to imprisonment, culminating in the location beit kele {בֵּ֥ית כֶּֽלֶא | bêyt ke·lēʾ} ‘house of prison.’
In context — 2 Kings 17:4
But the king of Assyria discovered a conspiracy in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and had not brought tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. So the king of Assyria restrained him and imprisoned him in a house of confinement.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 17:4:19 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 19 of 2 Kings 17:4, so the Hebrew word וַיַּאַסְרֵ֖הוּ (vayaasrehu) 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.17.4.W19, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.17.4.W19.S1) and character.