Jeremiah 16:13:17Jer.16.13.W17TAB
אֲשֶׁ֛ר
asher
“because”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /ʔăˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- because
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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The word
Word in context
- word
a-SHER
- clause
va-a-vad-TEM-SHAM et-e-lo-HIM a-khe-RIM yo-MAM va-LAI-la a-SHER LO-e-TEN la-KHEM kha-ni-NA
- sentence
ve-he-TAL-ti et-KHEM me-AL ha-A-rets ha-ZOT al-ha-A-rets a-SHER LO ye-Da-tem a-TEM va-a-vo-TE-khem va-a-vad-TEM-SHAM et-e-lo-HIM a-khe-RIM yo-MAM va-LAI-la a-SHER LO-e-TEN la-KHEM kha-ni-NA
Exegesis
Displacement is framed by the parallel prepositional phrases meʿal haʾāreṣ hazzōt {מֵעַל הָאָרֶץ הַזֹּאת | mē-ʿal hā-ʾā-reṣ haz-zōṯ} ‘from this land’ and al-haʾāreṣ ʾăšer {עַל־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר | ʿal-hā-ʾā-reṣ ʾă-šer} ‘to the land that’, which introduces the relative clause lō yedaʿtem {לֹא יְדַעְתֶּם | lō yə-daʿ-tem} ‘you have not known’ with wa-ʾavōteikhem {וַאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶם | wa-ʼă-ḇō-ṯê-ḵem} ‘nor your fathers’.
In context — Jeremiah 16:13
And I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will not grant you favor .
About this coordinate
Jeremiah 16:13:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of Jeremiah 16:13, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁ֛ר (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 Jer.16.13.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.16.13.W17.S1) and character.