Exodus 20:17:13Exod.20.17.W13TAB

אֲשֶׁ֥ר

asher

that

Transliteration
a-SHER
Extended
ah-SHEHR
IPA
/ʔă.ˈʃer/

Meaning by language

English
that

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Result
אֲ + שֶׁ֥ר
a + sher
asher

Alphabet Analysis

Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Hateph Patachreduced 'ah'
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    a-SHER

  2. phraseyour reading level

    a-SHER le-re-E-kha

  3. clause

    lo-takh-MOD E-shet re-E-kha ve-av-DO va-a-ma-TO ve-sho-RO va-kha-mo-RO ve-KHOL a-SHER le-re-E-kha

  4. sentence

    LO takh-MOD BEIT re-E-kha lo-takh-MOD E-shet re-E-kha ve-av-DO va-a-ma-TO ve-sho-RO va-kha-mo-RO ve-KHOL a-SHER le-re-E-kha

Exegesis

The final relative clause ve-kol asher le-re’ekha {וְכֹל אֲשֶׁר לְרֵעֶךָ | wə-ḵōl ʾă-šer lə-rē-ʿe-kā} ‘and all that belongs to your neighbor’ ensures comprehensive coverage of possessions. The formal reconstruction mirrors the repetition of lo + tachmod, whereas the dynamic reconstruction shifts to idiomatic expressions ‘set your heart’ and ‘crave’ for stylistic variation.

In contextExodus 20:17

You shall not covet the house of your neighbor ; you shall not covet the wife of your neighbor, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

About this coordinate

Exodus 20:17:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of Exodus 20:17, 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 Exod.20.17.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.20.17.W13.S1) and character.