Jeremiah 20:14:3Jer.20.14.W3TAB
אֲשֶׁ֥ר
asher
“which”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /ʔăˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- which
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
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER yu-LAD-ti
- clause
a-RUR ha-YOM a-SHER yu-LAD-ti BO
- sentence
a-RUR ha-YOM a-SHER yu-LAD-ti BO YOM a-sher-ye-LA-dat-ni i-MI al-ye-HI ba-RUKH
Exegesis
The relative clause asher yulladti bo {אֲשֶׁר יֻלַּדְתִּי בּוֹ | ʾă-šer yu-llad-tī bō} ‘which I was born in it’ employs the Pual stem to express passive causation.
Root and etymology
“fire”
In context — Jeremiah 20:14
Cursed be the day on which I was born; let not the day that my mother bore me be blessed.
About this coordinate
Jeremiah 20:14:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Jeremiah 20:14, 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 Jer.20.14.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.20.14.W3.S1) and character.