2 Samuel 21:5:62 Sam.21.5.W6TAB
וַאֲשֶׁ֖ר
vaasher
“and who or and which”
- Transliteration
- va-a-SHER
- Extended
- vah-ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /vaʔăˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- and who or and which
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| 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
va-a-SHER
- clause
va-yo-ME-ru el-ha-ME-lekh ha-ISH a-SHER kil-LA-nu va-a-SHER dim-MA-la-NU
- sentence
va-yo-ME-ru el-ha-ME-lekh ha-ISH a-SHER kil-LA-nu va-a-SHER dim-MA-la-NU nish-ma-DE-nu me-hit-ya-TSEV be-KHOL-ge-VUL yis-ra-EL
Exegesis
Two consecutive relative clauses introduced by asher {אֲשֶׁ֣ר | ʾăšer} mark the actions of the man: killanu {כִּלָּ֔נוּ | kil·lānû} ‘destroyed us’ and dimma-lanu {דִּמָּה־לָ֑נוּ | dĭmmā·lānû} ‘plotted against us’, building cumulative harm.
In context — 2 Samuel 21:5
And they said to the king, “The man who destroyed us and who plotted against us—we have been destroyed from standing anywhere within all the territory of Israel.”
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 21:5:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of 2 Samuel 21:5, so the Hebrew word וַאֲשֶׁ֖ר (vaasher) 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.21.5.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.21.5.W6.S1) and character.