Exodus 16:32:5Exod.16.32.W5TAB
אֲשֶׁ֣ר
asher
“which”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /ʔă.ˈʃɛr/
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 tsiv-VA Ye-ho-VAH
- clause
va-YO-mer MO-sheh ZEH ha-da-VAR a-SHER tsiv-VA Ye-ho-VAH me-LO ha-O-mer mim-ME-noo leh-mish-ME-ret leh-doh-ro-TE-khem
- sentence
va-YO-mer MO-sheh ZEH ha-da-VAR a-SHER tsiv-VA Ye-ho-VAH me-LO ha-O-mer mim-ME-noo leh-mish-ME-ret leh-doh-ro-TE-khem leh-MA-an yir-U et-ha-LE-khem a-SHER he-e-KHAL-ti et-KHEM ba-mid-BAR be-ho-tsi-EE et-KHEM meh-E-rets mits-RA-yim
Exegesis
The relative clause asher tsivvah YHWH {אֲשֶׁר צִוָּה יְהוָה | ʾă-šer ṣiw-wāh Yə-hō-wāh} ‘which the LORD commanded’ attributes the directive to the divine speaker using a Piel perfect.
This is further defined by the relative clause asher heʾekhalti etkhem bammidbar {אֲשֶׁר הֶאֱכַלְתִּי אֶתְכֶם בַּמִּדְבָּר | ʾă-šer he-ʾe-khal-tî ʾet-kem ba-mmid-bār} ‘which I fed you in the wilderness’, where the Hiphil perfect heʾekhalti emphasizes divine provision.
In context — Exodus 16:32
And Moses said, “Here is the instruction that the LORD has given: A full omer of it must be preserved for your generations , so that they may see the bread which I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of Egypt.”
About this coordinate
Exodus 16:32:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Exodus 16:32, 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 Exod.16.32.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.16.32.W5.S1) and character.