2 Kings 17:8:132 Kgs.17.8.W13TAB
עָשֽׂוּ׃
asu
“they did”
- Transliteration
- A-SU
- Extended
- AA-SOO
- IPA
- /ʕaːˈsuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- they 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 | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
A-SU
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER A-SU
- clause
u-mal-KHE yis-ra-EL a-SHER A-SU
- sentence
va-YE-le-KHU be-khu-KOT ha-go-YIM a-SHER ho-RISH ye-ho-VAH mip-pe-NE be-NE yis-ra-EL u-mal-KHE yis-ra-EL a-SHER A-SU
Exegesis
The coordination wumalkhei Yisrael asher asu {וּמַלְכֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשֽׂוּ | ū·mal·kē yiś·rā·ʾēl ʾă·šer ʿā·sū} ‘and (those of) the kings of Israel which they did’ supplies a second relative clause that parallels the first: “which” ties the kings’ conduct to the same governing “statutes” framework implied from the earlier phrase, so the sentence condemns imitation of both foreign norms and homegrown royal innovations.
Root and etymology
consonantsAyin–Sin–Heh
“to make, do”
In context — 2 Kings 17:8
And they walked in the statutes of the nations that the LORD had dispossessed from before the sons of Israel, and in those of the kings of Israel that they had done.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 17:8:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of 2 Kings 17:8, so the Hebrew word עָשֽׂוּ׃ (asu) 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.17.8.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.17.8.W13.S1) and character.