2 Kings 18:22:72 Kgs.18.22.W7TAB
אֲשֶׁ֨ר
asher
“who”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /ʔăˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- who
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 he-SIR khiz-ki-YA-hu
- clause
ha-lo-HU a-SHER he-SIR khiz-ki-YA-hu et-ba-mo-TAV ve-et-miz-be-kho-TAV va-yo-MER li-ye-hu-DA ve-li-ru-sha-LA-yim lif-NE ha-miz-BE-akh ha-ZE tish-ta-kha-VU bi-ru-sha-LA-yim
- sentence
ve-khi-to-me-RUN e-LAI el-ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-nu ba-TAKH-nu ha-lo-HU a-SHER he-SIR khiz-ki-YA-hu et-ba-mo-TAV ve-et-miz-be-kho-TAV va-yo-MER li-ye-hu-DA ve-li-ru-sha-LA-yim lif-NE ha-miz-BE-akh ha-ZE tish-ta-kha-VU bi-ru-sha-LA-yim
Exegesis
The interrogative halo hu {הֲלוֹא־ה֗וּא | hǎlōʾ-hûʾ} ‘is he not’ initiates the apodosis, leading into the relative clause asher hesir chizqiyahu et-bamotav ve-et-mizbechotav {אֲשֶׁ֨ר הֵסִ֤יר חִזְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙ אֶת־בָּמֹתָ֣יו וְאֶת־מִזְבְּחֹתָ֔יו | ʾăšer hēsîr ḥizqîyāhû ʾet-bāmōṯāw wə-ʾet-mizbəḥōṯāw} ‘who removed Hezekiah the high places and the altars of his’.
Root and etymology
א־שׁ־ר
“blessedness, pleasure”
In context — 2 Kings 18:22
But if you say to me, “In the LORD our God we have trusted”—is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, and who said to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘Before this altar you shall bow down in Jerusalem’?”
About this coordinate
2 Kings 18:22:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 2 Kings 18:22, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁ֨ר (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.18.22.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.18.22.W7.S1) and character.