Judges 14:20:5Judg.14.20.W5TAB
אֲשֶׁ֥ר
asher
“who”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /ʔăˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- who
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 re-A
- clause
le-me-re-E-hu a-SHER re-A LO
- sentence
va-te-HI E-shet shim-SHON le-me-re-E-hu a-SHER re-A LO
Exegesis
The relative pronoun asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾăš-er} ‘who’ introduces a defining relative clause, with the perfect re’a {רֵעָה | rê-‘ā} ‘had been a companion’ plus the suffix lo {לוֹ | lō} ‘to him’, describing the companion’s prior relationship. This construct-plus-relative structure foregrounds causality: Samson’s wife passes to the man previously attached to him. English rendering maintains the construct as ‘wife of’ and the relative clause as ‘who had befriended him’ to preserve both the possessive linkage and temporal nuance.
In context — Judges 14:20
And Samson’s wife was given to his companion , who had befriended him.
About this coordinate
Judges 14:20:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Judges 14:20, 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 Judg.14.20.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.14.20.W5.S1) and character.