2 Kings 18:12:182 Kgs.18.12.W18TAB
עָשֽׂוּ׃
asu
“they did”
- Transliteration
- A-SU
- Extended
- AA-soo
- IPA
- /ʕaːˈs̪uː/
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
ve-LO A-SU
- clause
ve-LO SHA-me-U ve-LO A-SU
- sentence
AL a-SHER lo-SHA-me-U be-KOL Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-hem va-ya-av-RE-U et-be-ri-TO ET kal-a-SHER tsi-VA mo-SHE E-ved Ye-ho-VAH ve-LO SHA-me-U ve-LO A-SU
Exegesis
The final parallelism wə-lō šā-me-ʾū wə-lō ʿāśū {וְלֹא שָׁמְעוּ וְלֹא עָשׂוּ | wə-lō-ʾ šā-me-ʾū wə-lō-ʾ ʿā-śū} ‘they neither listened nor did’ intensifies the indictment by coupling refusal to hear with failure to act.
In context — 2 Kings 18:12
They did not heed the voice of the LORD their God , and they violated His covenant—everything that Moses, the LORD’s servant, commanded. They neither listened nor carried it out.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 18:12:18 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 18 of 2 Kings 18:12, 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.18.12.W18, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.18.12.W18.S1) and character.