2 Kings 17:8:42 Kgs.17.8.W4TAB
אֲשֶׁר֙
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
- clause
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
- 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
A first relative clause, asher horish YHWH {אֲשֶׁר הוֹרִ֣ישׁ יְהוָ֔ה | ʾă·šer hôrîš YHWH} ‘which the LORD dispossessed,’ anchors those nations in YHWH’s prior act of removing them “from before” Israel, making Israel’s imitation a reversal of God’s saving action.
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
ʾ-sh-r
“Asherah-pole, wooden cult object”
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 17:8:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 2 Kings 17:8, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁר֙ (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 Kgs.17.8.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.17.8.W4.S1) and character.