Exodus 18:5:9Exod.18.5.W9TAB
אֲשֶׁר־ה֛וּא
asherhu
“where he”
- Transliteration
- a-sher-HU
- Extended
- ah-shehr-HOO
- IPA
- /ʔă.ʃɛrˈhuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- where he
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 | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-sher-HU
- clause
el-ham-mid-BAR a-sher-HU kho-NEH SHAM HAR ha-e-lo-HIM
- sentence
va-ya-VO yit-RO kho-TEN mo-SHEH u-va-NAV ve-ish-TO el-mo-SHEH el-ham-mid-BAR a-sher-HU kho-NEH SHAM HAR ha-e-lo-HIM
Exegesis
The relative clause introduced by ʾašer-hûʾ {אֲשֶׁר־הוּא | ʾăšer-hûʾ} ‘where he’ governs the participle kho-neh {חֹנֶה | ḥō-neh} ‘is encamping’, reinforced by the locative adverb šām {שָׁם | šām} ‘there’.
Root and etymology
Rootsin–resh–resh
“prince, official”
In context — Exodus 18:5
And Jethro , the father-in-law of Moses, came with his sons and his wife to Moses, to the wilderness where he was encamping at the mountain of God .
About this coordinate
Exodus 18:5:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Exodus 18:5, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁר־ה֛וּא (asherhu) 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.18.5.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.18.5.W9.S1) and character.