2 Samuel 19:17:102 Sam.19.17.W10TABWLC 2 Samuel 19:18
עָשָׂ֖ר
asar
“ten”
- Transliteration
- a-SAR
- Extended
- ah-SAAR
- IPA
- /ʕaˈsaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- ten
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-SAR
- phraseyour reading level
va-kha-ME-shet a-SAR
- clause
ve-E-lef ISH im-MO mi-be-ne-ya-MIN ve-tsi-VA NA-ar BET sha-UL va-kha-ME-shet a-SAR ba-NAV ve-es-re-RIM a-va-DAV it-TO
- sentence
ve-E-lef ISH im-MO mi-be-ne-ya-MIN ve-tsi-VA NA-ar BET sha-UL va-kha-ME-shet a-SAR ba-NAV ve-es-re-RIM a-va-DAV it-TO ve-tsa-le-KHU ha-yar-DEN lif-NE ha-ME-lekh
Exegesis
The numeral phrase və-ḥameisháh ʿā-sār bānāyw {וְחֲמֵשָׁה עָשָׂר בָּנָיו | və-ḥa-mei-šāh ʿā-sār bānāyw} ‘and fifteen his sons’ and wə-ʿeśrīm ʿăḇādāyw {וְעֶשְׂרִים עֲבָדָיו | wə-ʿeś-rîm ʿă-ḇā-dāyw} ‘and twenty his servants’ creates cumulative emphasis.
Root and etymology
ש־ר
“prince, leader”
In context — 2 Samuel 19:17
And a thousand men were with him from Benjamin, and Ziba, servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants were with him, and they crossed the Jordan before the king .
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 19:17:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of 2 Samuel 19:17, so the Hebrew word עָשָׂ֖ר (asar) 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 Sam.19.17.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.19.17.W10.S1) and character.