2 Kings 18:16:92 Kgs.18.16.W9TAB
אֲשֶׁ֣ר
asher
“which or that”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /ʔăˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- which or that
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
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER tsi-PA
- clause
ba-ET ha-HI ki-TSATS khiz-ki-YA et-dal-TOT he-KHAL ye-ho-VAH ve-et-ha-om-NOT a-SHER tsi-PA khiz-ki-YA ME-lekh ye-hu-DA
- sentence
ba-ET ha-HI ki-TSATS khiz-ki-YA et-dal-TOT he-KHAL ye-ho-VAH ve-et-ha-om-NOT a-SHER tsi-PA khiz-ki-YA ME-lekh ye-hu-DA va-yit-ne-EM le-ME-lekh a-SHUR
Exegesis
The relative clause introduced by asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾăšer} ‘which’ plus tsippa {צִפָּה | ṣippāh} ‘he overlaid’ recalls Hezekiah’s earlier embellishment; syntactically it can attach most naturally to the nearer “supports,” yet contextually it can also describe both doors and supports as items he plated.
Root and etymology
א־שׁ־ר
“blessedness, pleasure”
In context — 2 Kings 18:16
At that time Hezekiah cut off from the doors of the temple of the LORD and from the supports which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and he gave them to the king of Assyria.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 18:16:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of 2 Kings 18:16, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁ֣ר (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.18.16.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.18.16.W9.S1) and character.