Genesis 19:11:2Gen.19.11.W2TAB
אֲשֶׁר־פֶּ֣תַח
asherpetakh
“who were at the entrance of”
- Transliteration
- a-sher-PE-takh
- Extended
- ah-shehr-PEH-tahkh
- IPA
- /ʔă.ʃɛr.ˈpɛ.taħ/
Meaning by language
- English
- who were at the entrance of
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 | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-sher-PE-takh
- phraseyour reading level
a-sher-PE-takh ha-BA-yit
- clause
ve-et-ha-a-na-SHIM a-sher-PE-takh ha-BA-yit hi-KU ba-sa-ne-ve-RIM mi-ka-TON ve-ad-ga-DOL
- sentence
ve-et-ha-a-na-SHIM a-sher-PE-takh ha-BA-yit hi-KU ba-sa-ne-ve-RIM mi-ka-TON ve-ad-ga-DOL va-yil-U lim-TSO ha-PA-takh
Exegesis
The relative clause introduced by asher {אֲשֶׁר־ | ʾă-šer} ‘who’ specifies the location in the construct chain petakh habayit {פֶּתַח הַבַּיִת | pe-taḥ hab-ba-yit} ‘entrance of the house’.
Root and etymology
Rootpe–tav–chet
“to open”
In context — Genesis 19:11
And they struck the men at the entrance of the house with blindness, from the least to the greatest, so that they wore themselves out trying to find the entrance .
About this coordinate
Genesis 19:11:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Genesis 19:11, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁר־פֶּ֣תַח (asherpetakh) 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.19.11.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.19.11.W2.S1) and character.