Genesis 39:23:10Gen.39.23.W10TAB
וַֽאֲשֶׁר־ה֥וּא
vaasherhu
“and whatever”
- Transliteration
- va-a-sher-HU
- Extended
- vah-ah-shehr-HOO
- IPA
- /wa.ʔă.ʃɛr.ˈhuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and whatever
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| 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 | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
va-a-sher-HU
- phraseyour reading level
va-a-sher-HU o-SEH
- clause
va-a-sher-HU o-SEH Ye-ho-VAH mats-LI-akh
- sentence
EIN SAR beit-ha-SO-har ro-EH et-kol-me-u-MAH be-ya-DO ba-a-SHER Ye-ho-VAH it-TO va-a-sher-HU o-SEH Ye-ho-VAH mats-LI-akh
Exegesis
The second relative clause va-asher-hu oseh {וַאֲשֶׁר־הוּא עֹשֶׂה | wa-ʾă-šer-hûʾ ʿō-śeh} ‘whatever he was doing’ introduces comprehensive scope, and the final clause YHWH matsliakh {יְהוָה מַצְלִיחַ | Yə-hō-wāh maṣ-lî-aḥ} foregrounds the LORD as the active source of successful outcomes. In English, participles are rendered as past habitual to match narrative style, and relative clauses are rendered with ‘because’ and ‘whatever’ to preserve causal and universal conditional relationships.
Root and etymology
š-r-rshin–resh–resh
“to rule, exercise authority”
In context — Genesis 39:23
The chief of the prison house did not look into anything that was in his hand, because the LORD was with him, and whatever he did, the LORD made it succeed .
About this coordinate
Genesis 39:23:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Genesis 39:23, so the Hebrew word וַֽאֲשֶׁר־ה֥וּא (vaasherhu) 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.39.23.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.39.23.W10.S1) and character.