Judges 15:10:13Judg.15.10.W13TAB
כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר
kaasher
“as”
- Transliteration
- ka-a-SHER
- Extended
- kah-ah-SHER
- IPA
- /kaʔăˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- as
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| 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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The word
Word in context
- word
ka-a-SHER
- clause
va-yo-me-RU le-e-SOR et-shim-sHON a-LI-nu la-a-SOT LO ka-a-SHER a-SA LA-nu
- sentence
va-yo-me-RU ISH ye-hu-DA la-MA a-li-TEM a-LEI-nu va-yo-me-RU le-e-SOR et-shim-sHON a-LI-nu la-a-SOT LO ka-a-SHER a-SA LA-nu
Exegesis
The infinitive la’asot {לַעֲשֹׂת | laʿăśôt} ‘to do’ with lo {לוֹ | lô} ‘to him’ and comparative ka’asher {כַּאֲשֶׁר | kaʾăšer} links asah {עָשָׂה | ʿāsâh} ‘he did’ and lanu {לָנוּ | lānû} ‘to us,’ creating parallelism that underscores mutual retaliation.
Root and etymology
א־שׁ
“fire”
In context — Judges 15:10
And the men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" They said, "We have come to bind Samson and to do to him just as he did to us."
About this coordinate
Judges 15:10:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of Judges 15:10, so the Hebrew word כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר (kaasher) 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.15.10.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.15.10.W13.S1) and character.