Deuteronomy 14:12:2Deut.14.12.W2TAB
אֲשֶׁ֥ר
asher
“which”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER
- Extended
- a-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
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER lo-to-akh-LU
- clause
ve-ZEH a-SHER lo-to-akh-LU me-HEM
- sentence
ve-ZEH a-SHER lo-to-akh-LU me-HEM ha-NE-sher ve-ha-PE-res ve-ha-az-ni-YA
Exegesis
Asher {אֲשֶׁ֥ר | ă-šer} ‘which’ initiates the relative clause, immediately followed by the negation lo {לֹֽא־ | lō} plus the imperfect tokhlu {תֹאכְּל֖וּ | tō-khu-lū} ‘you shall eat’ to form a prohibitive statement.
In context — Deuteronomy 14:12
And this is what you are not to eat from among them: the eagle, the vulture, and the black vulture.
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 14:12:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Deuteronomy 14:12, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁ֥ר (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.14.12.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.14.12.W2.S1) and character.