Genesis 17:12:12Gen.17.12.W12TAB

אֲשֶׁ֛ר

asher

who

Transliteration
a-SHER
Extended
ah-SHEHR
IPA
/ʔa.ˈʃɛr/

Meaning by language

English
who

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Result
אֲ + שֶׁ֛ר
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. clause

    ye-LID BA-yit u-mik-nat-KE-sef mi-KOL ben-ne-KHAR a-SHER LO mi-zar-a-KHA HU

  3. sentence

    u-ven-she-mo-NAT ya-MIM yim-MOL la-KHEM kol-za-KHAR le-do-ro-tei-KHEM ye-LID BA-yit u-mik-nat-KE-sef mi-KOL ben-ne-KHAR a-SHER LO mi-zar-a-KHA HU

Exegesis

The phrase mikol ben-nechar {מִכֹּל בֶּן־נֵכָר | mi-kōl ben-nê-ḵār} ‘from every son of a foreigner’ plus the relative clause asher lo mizzar'akha hu {אֲשֶׁר לֹא מִזַּרְעֲךָ הֽוּא | ʾă-šer lō miz-zar-ʿă-ḵā hû} ‘who is not from your descendants’ narrows inclusion to non-native members. English rendering distributes modifiers into clear temporal, causal, and relative clauses to preserve the detailed legal scope while maintaining readability.

In contextGenesis 17:12

Every male among you must be circumcised when he is eight days old, throughout your generations—whether he is born in the household or bought with money from a foreigner who is not of your descendants .

About this coordinate

Genesis 17:12:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Genesis 17:12, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁ֛ר (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 Gen.17.12.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.17.12.W12.S1) and character.