Exodus 32:8:6Exod.32.8.W6TAB
עָשׂ֣וּ
asu
“they made”
- Transliteration
- a-SU
- Extended
- ah-SOO
- IPA
- /ʕaˈsuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- they made
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Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Word in context
- word
a-SU
- phraseyour reading level
a-SU la-HEM
- clause
sa-RU ma-HER min-ha-DE-rekh a-SHER tsi-VI-tim a-SU la-HEM E-gel ma-se-KHA
- sentence
sa-RU ma-HER min-ha-DE-rekh a-SHER tsi-VI-tim a-SU la-HEM E-gel ma-se-KHA va-yish-ta-kha-vu-LO va-yiz-be-khu-LO va-yom-RU E-le e-lo-HE-kha yis-ra-EL a-SHER he-eh-LU-kha me-E-rets mits-RA-yim
Exegesis
The vav-consecutive sequence asu {עָשׂוּ | ’ā-su} ‘they made’, vayishtachavû-lô {וַיִּשְׁתַּחֲווּ־לוֹ | va-yish-ta-cha-vû-lô} ‘and they bowed down to him’, and vayizbechû-lô {וַיִּזְבְּחוּ־לוֹ | va-yiz-be-chû-lô} ‘and they sacrificed to him’ unfolds the idolatrous ritual in three stages—fabrication, worship, and offering.
In context — Exodus 32:8
They have quickly turned aside from the path which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a calf, a molten image , bowed down to it and sacrificed to it, and said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
About this coordinate
Exodus 32:8:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Exodus 32:8, so the Hebrew word עָשׂ֣וּ (asu) 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.32.8.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.32.8.W6.S1) and character.