Genesis 2:8:9Gen.2.8.W9TAB
אֲשֶׁ֥ר
asher
“whom”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /ʔă.ˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- whom
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 ya-TSAR
- clause
va-ya-SEM SHAM et-ha-a-DAM a-SHER ya-TSAR
- sentence
va-yit-TA Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HIM gan-be-E-den mi-QE-dem va-ya-SEM SHAM et-ha-a-DAM a-SHER ya-TSAR
Exegesis
The relative clause asher yatsar {אֲשֶׁר יָצָר | ʾă-šer yā-ṣar} ‘whom He formed’ marks prior creative action. In English, the relative clause is rendered in the past perfect (“whom He had formed”) to reflect action sequence, and the rendering shifts from “placed” to “set” in the formal and to “put” in the dynamic to vary register.
In context — Genesis 2:8
And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east, and there He set the man whom He had formed.
About this coordinate
Genesis 2:8:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Genesis 2:8, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁ֥ר (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.2.8.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.2.8.W9.S1) and character.