2 Kings 21:17:72 Kgs.21.17.W7TAB

אֲשֶׁ֣ר

asher

which

Transliteration
a-SHER
Extended
ah-SHEHR
IPA
/ʔăˈʃɛr/

Meaning by language

English
which

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Result
אֲ + שֶׁ֣ר
a + sher
asher

Alphabet Analysis

Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Hateph Patachreduced 'ah'
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    a-SHER

  2. phraseyour reading level

    a-SHER kha-TA

  3. clause

    ve-YE-ter div-RE me-na-SHE ve-KHOL-a-SHER a-SA ve-kha-ta-TO a-SHER kha-TA

  4. sentence

    ve-YE-ter div-RE me-na-SHE ve-KHOL-a-SHER a-SA ve-kha-ta-TO a-SHER kha-TA ha-LO-HEM ke-tu-VIM al-SE-fer div-RE ha-ya-MIM le-mal-KHE ye-hu-DA

Exegesis

The coordinating ve-chol asher {וְכָל־אֲשֶׁר | wə-ḵól ʾă-šer} ‘and all that’ broadens the scope, and the nominal clause vechatato asher chata {וְחַטָּאתוֹ אֲשֶׁר חָטָא | wə-ḥaṭ-tā-tō ʾă-šer ḥā-ṭāʾ} ‘and his sin which he sinned’ uses a relative clause for emphasis.

Root and etymology

ʾ-š-r

upright, blessed

In context2 Kings 21:17

And the remainder of the words of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin which he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

About this coordinate

2 Kings 21:17:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 2 Kings 21:17, 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.21.17.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.21.17.W7.S1) and character.