Exodus 18:8:15Exod.18.8.W15TAB
אֲשֶׁ֣ר
asher
“that”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /ʔaˈʃer/
Meaning by language
- English
- that
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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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
a-SHER
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER me-tsa-a-TAM ba-DE-rekh
- clause
ET kol-hat-te-la-AH a-SHER me-tsa-a-TAM ba-DE-rekh va-yats-tsi-LEM Ye-ho-VAH
- sentence
va-ye-sa-PER mo-SHEH le-khot-NO ET kol-a-SHER a-SA Ye-ho-VAH le-par-O oo-le-mits-RA-yim al o-DOT yis-ra-EL ET kol-hat-te-la-AH a-SHER me-tsa-a-TAM ba-DE-rekh va-yats-tsi-LEM Ye-ho-VAH
Exegesis
The marker et {אֵת | ʾēt} introduces the first object clause kol-asher asah YHWH {כָּל־אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה יְהוָה | kāl-ʾă-šer ʿā-śāh Yə-hō-wāh} ‘all that the LORD did’, with the relative asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾă-šer} tying back to kol {כָּל | kāl} for cohesion.
A second et {אֵת | ʾēt} introduces kol-ha-tela’ah asher metsa’atam {כָּל־הַתְּלָאָה אֲשֶׁר מְצָאָתַם | kāl-hat-tə-lā-ʾāh ʾă-šer mə-ṣā-ʾā-ṯām} ‘all the hardship that met them’, where the feminine noun tela’ah {הַתְּלָאָה | hat-tə-lā-ʾāh} takes the singular verb metsa’atam to personify affliction.
Root and etymology
Rootsin–resh–resh
“prince, official”
In context — Exodus 18:8
And Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt on account of Israel, all the hardship that had met them on the way, and how the LORD delivered them.
About this coordinate
Exodus 18:8:15 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 15 of Exodus 18:8, 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.18.8.W15, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.18.8.W15.S1) and character.