Deuteronomy 13:6:14Deut.13.6.W14TABWLC Deuteronomy 13:7
אֲשֶׁר֙
asher
“which”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /ʔaˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- which
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| 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
a-SHER
- clause
nel-KHA ve-na-av-DA e-lo-HIM a-SHER lo-ya-da-TA a-TA va-a-vo-TEI-kha me-o-LAM
- sentence
ki-ya-si-TKHAF a-KHI-kha ben-i-MEKH-kha o-vin-KHA o-vit-KHA o-E-shet-KHEI-ke-kha o-re-a-KHA a-SHER ke-naf-SHE-kha ba-SE-ter le-MOR nel-KHA ve-na-av-DA e-lo-HIM a-SHER lo-ya-da-TA a-TA va-a-vo-TEI-kha me-o-LAM
Exegesis
The relative clause introduced by asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾăšer} with kenafshekha {כְּנַפְשְׁךָ | kə·nap̄·šêḵā} “like your soul” highlights intimate closeness.
The phrase ʾĕ·lō·hîm ʾă·ḥê·rîm {אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים | ʾĕ·lō·hîm ʾă·ḥê·rîm} “other gods” governs the relative clause asher loyadata {אֲשֶׁר לֹא־יָדַעְתָּ | ʾăšer lō·yā·ḏaṯ·tā}, and the parallel personal and ancestral subjects attah vaavotekha {אַתָּה וַאֲבֹתֶיךָ | ʾattāh wā·ʾă·wō·ṯe·ḵā} underline both individual and generational unfamiliarity with these deities.
In context — Deuteronomy 13:6
If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is like your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers .”
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 13:6:14 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 14 of Deuteronomy 13:6, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁר֙ (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 Deut.13.6.W14, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.13.6.W14.S1) and character.