Isaiah 39:6:7Isa.39.6.W7TAB
וַאֲשֶׁ֨ר
vaasher
“and that which”
- Transliteration
- va-a-SHER
- Extended
- vah-ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /vaʔăˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- and that which
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 |
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Word in context
- word
va-a-SHER
- phraseyour reading level
va-a-SHER ats-RU a-vo-TE-kha
- clause
hi-NE ya-MIM ba-IM ve-nis-SA kal-a-SHER be-VE-te-kha va-a-SHER ats-RU a-vo-TE-kha ad-ha-YOM ha-ZE ba-VEL
- sentence
hi-NE ya-MIM ba-IM ve-nis-SA kal-a-SHER be-VE-te-kha va-a-SHER ats-RU a-vo-TE-kha ad-ha-YOM ha-ZE ba-VEL lo-yi-va-TER da-VAR a-MAR ye-ho-VAH
Exegesis
Two parallel relative clauses, kol-asher beveitekha {כָּל־אֲשֶׁר בְּבֵיתֶךָ | ḳāl-ă-sher bə-bê-ṯe-kā} and va-asher atzru avotekha {וַאֲשֶׁר אָצְרוּ אֲבֹתֶיךָ | wa-ă-sher ʼā-ṣə-rū ă-vō-tə-kā}, extend the scope to present possessions and ancestral reserves.
In context — Isaiah 39:6
Behold, the days are coming when everything that is in your house and what your fathers have stored up to this day will be taken away to Babylon; nothing will remain, says the LORD .
About this coordinate
Isaiah 39:6:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Isaiah 39:6, so the Hebrew word וַאֲשֶׁ֨ר (vaasher) 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 Isa.39.6.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Isa.39.6.W7.S1) and character.