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

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Result
אַ + שּׁ֔וּר
a + shur
ashur

Alphabet Analysis

Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    a-SHUR

  2. phraseyour reading level

    be-ma-kha-NE a-SHUR

  3. 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

  4. 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 context2 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.