Exodus 18:3:4Exod.18.3.W4TAB
אֲשֶׁ֨ר
asher
“whose”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /ʔăˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- whose
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 SHEM ha-e-KHAD
- clause
a-SHER SHEM ha-e-KHAD ger-SHOM KI a-MAR GER ha-YI-ti be-E-rets na-khri-YA
- sentence
ve-ET she-NEI va-NE-ha a-SHER SHEM ha-e-KHAD ger-SHOM KI a-MAR GER ha-YI-ti be-E-rets na-khri-YA
Exegesis
The relative pronoun asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾă-šer} ‘who’ begins a restrictive clause identifying the son whose name shem ha’eḥad {שֵׁם הָאֶחָד | šēm hā-ʾe-ḥāḏ} ‘the name of the one’ is Gershom {גֵּרְשֹׁם | gēr-šōm} ‘sojourner-name’.
Root and etymology
Rootsin–resh–resh
“prince, official”
In context — Exodus 18:3
And her two sons, of whom the name of the one was Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land .”
About this coordinate
Exodus 18:3:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Exodus 18:3, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁ֨ר (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.18.3.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.18.3.W4.S1) and character.