Exodus 39:5:3Exod.39.5.W3TAB
אֲשֶׁ֣ר
asher
“which”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /ʔăˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- which
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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Word in context
- word
a-SHER
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER a-LAV
- clause
ve-KHE-shev a-fu-da-TO a-SHER a-LAV mi-me-NU HU ke-ma-a-SE-hu za-HAV te-KHE-let ve-ar-ga-MAN ve-to-LA-at sha-NI ve-SHESH mosh-ZAR
- sentence
ve-KHE-shev a-fu-da-TO a-SHER a-LAV mi-me-NU HU ke-ma-a-SE-hu za-HAV te-KHE-let ve-ar-ga-MAN ve-to-LA-at sha-NI ve-SHESH mosh-ZAR ka-a-SHER tsi-VA Ye-ho-VAH et-mo-SHE
Exegesis
A relative clause introduced by asher {אֲשֶׁר | ’ă-šer} ‘which’ contains the complements alayv {עָלָיו | ʿā-lā-yw} ‘upon it’ and mimmennu {מִמֶּנּוּ | mimmên-nû} ‘from it’, with hu {הוּא | hûʾ} resuming the subject.
In context — Exodus 39:5
And the waistband of his ephod, which was on it and from it, was made in the same workmanship: gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet thread, and finely twined linen, as the LORD commanded Moses .
About this coordinate
Exodus 39:5:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Exodus 39:5, 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.39.5.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.39.5.W3.S1) and character.