Judges 13:11:12Judg.13.11.W12TAB
אֲשֶׁר־דִּבַּ֥רְתָּ
asherdibbarta
“who spoke”
- Transliteration
- a-sher-dib-BAR-ta
- Extended
- ah-shehr-dihb-BAR-tah
- IPA
- /ʔă.ʃɛr.dibˈbartaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- who spoke
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 | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-sher-dib-BAR-ta
- phraseyour reading level
a-sher-dib-BAR-ta el-ha-ish-SHA
- clause
va-ya-VO el-ha-ISH va-yo-MER LO ha-a-TA ha-ISH a-sher-dib-BAR-ta el-ha-ish-SHA va-yo-MER a-NI
- sentence
va-ya-KAM va-ye-LEKH ma-NO-akh a-kha-RE ish-TO va-ya-VO el-ha-ISH va-yo-MER LO ha-a-TA ha-ISH a-sher-dib-BAR-ta el-ha-ish-SHA va-yo-MER a-NI
Exegesis
The interrogative ha’atta haish {הַאַתָּ֥ה הָאִ֛ישׁ | ha-ʾă-ttā hā-ʾîš} ‘are you the man’ introduces an identity question, refined by the relative clause asher dibbartā el-haishshah {אֲשֶׁר־דִּבַּ֥רְתָּ אֶל־הָאִשָּׁ֖ה | ʼă-šer-dib-bār-tā ʾel-ha-ʾiš-šāh} ‘who spoke to the woman’.
Root and etymology
ד־ב־ר
“to speak, declare”
In context — Judges 13:11
And Manoah got up and went after his wife, and he came to the man and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to the woman?” And he said, “I am.”
About this coordinate
Judges 13:11:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Judges 13:11, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁר־דִּבַּ֥רְתָּ (asherdibbarta) 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 Judg.13.11.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.13.11.W12.S1) and character.