Genesis 14:2:1Gen.14.2.W1TAB
עָשׂ֣וּ
asu
“they waged”
- Transliteration
- a-SU
- Extended
- ah-SOO
- IPA
- /ʕaː.ˈsuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- they waged
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
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 mil-kha-MA
- clause
a-SU mil-kha-MA et-be-RA ME-lekh se-DOM ve-et-bir-SHA ME-lekh a-mo-RA
- sentence
a-SU mil-kha-MA et-be-RA ME-lekh se-DOM ve-et-bir-SHA ME-lekh a-mo-RA shin-AV ME-lekh ad-MA ve-shem-E-ver ME-lekh tse-vo-YIM u-ME-lekh be-LA HI tso-AR
Exegesis
The clause opens with the verbal sequence asu milchamah {עָשׂוּ מִלְחָמָה | ʿā-śû mil-ḥā-māh} “they made war,” a common Hebrew verb–object collocation that functions idiomatically as “to wage war.” No explicit subject is expressed; it is supplied from the previous verse, so the third person plural verb carries the subject information.
In context — Genesis 14:2
They made war against Bera king of Sodom, against Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, that is Zoar .
About this coordinate
Genesis 14:2:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Genesis 14:2, 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 Gen.14.2.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.14.2.W1.S1) and character.