2 Kings 19:35:92 Kgs.19.35.W9TAB
אַשּׁ֔וּר
ashur
“Assyria”
- Transliteration
- a-SHUR
- Extended
- ah-SHOOR
- IPA
- /ʔaʃˈʃuːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- Assyria
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-SHUR
- phraseyour reading level
be-ma-kha-NE a-SHUR
- clause
va-ye-HI ba-LAI-la ha-HU va-ye-TSE mal-AKH Ye-ho-VAH va-YAKH be-ma-kha-NE a-SHUR me-A she-mo-NIM va-kha-mi-SHA A-lef
- sentence
va-ye-HI ba-LAI-la ha-HU va-ye-TSE mal-AKH Ye-ho-VAH va-YAKH be-ma-kha-NE a-SHUR me-A she-mo-NIM va-kha-mi-SHA A-lef va-yash-ki-MU ba-BO-ker ve-hi-NE khu-LAM pe-ga-RIM me-TIM
Exegesis
The verb vayakh {וַיַּךְ | wa-ya-ḵ} ‘and he struck’ introduces divine judgment within the prepositional phrase bemachaneh Ashur {בְּמַחֲנֵה אַשּׁוּר | bə-maḥă-nêh ʾă-shur} ‘in the camp of Assyria’.
In context — 2 Kings 19:35
And it happened that night, the angel of the LORD went out and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp, and when they arose early in the morning, behold, all of them were corpses .
About this coordinate
2 Kings 19:35:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of 2 Kings 19:35, so the Hebrew word אַשּׁ֔וּר (ashur) 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.19.35.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.19.35.W9.S1) and character.