Genesis 39:20:11Gen.39.20.W11TAB
אֲסוּרִ֑ים
asurim
“were confined”
- Transliteration
- a-su-RIM
- Extended
- ah-soo-REEM
- IPA
- /ʔă.suː.ˈriːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- were confined
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
a-su-RIM
- clause
va-yik-KAKH a-do-NEI yo-SEF o-TO va-yit-te-NE-hu el-BEIT ha-SO-har me-KOM a-sher-a-si-REI ha-ME-lekh a-su-RIM
- sentence
va-yik-KAKH a-do-NEI yo-SEF o-TO va-yit-te-NE-hu el-BEIT ha-SO-har me-KOM a-sher-a-si-REI ha-ME-lekh a-su-RIM va-ye-hi-SHAM be-VEIT ha-SO-har
Exegesis
Inside this clause, the sequence asurei ʾasirei hamelekh asurim {אסורי אֲסִירֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ אֲסוּרִים | ʾă-surê ʾă-sî-rê ham-me-lek ʾă-sû-rîm} piles up a construct participle ‘bound ones of,’ a construct noun ‘prisoners of the king,’ and a final participle ‘imprisoned,’ intensifying the depiction of captivity as both binding and confinement under royal authority.
Root and etymology
ʾ-s-raleph–samekh–resh
“to bind, tie up, imprison”
In context — Genesis 39:20
And the master of Joseph took him and put him into the house of the prison , the place where the king’s prisoners were bound. And he was there in the house of the prison.
About this coordinate
Genesis 39:20:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Genesis 39:20, so the Hebrew word אֲסוּרִ֑ים (asurim) 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.39.20.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.39.20.W11.S1) and character.