Judges 15:11:21Judg.15.11.W21TAB
כַּאֲשֶׁר֙
kaasher
“as”
- Transliteration
- ka-a-SHER
- Extended
- kah-ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /kaʔăˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- as
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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-mer la-HEM ka-a-SHER a-SU LI KEN a-SI-ti la-HEM
- sentence
va-yer-DU she-lo-SHET a-la-FIM ISH mi-ye-hu-DA el-se-IF SE-la e-TAM va-yom-RU le-shim-SHON ha-LO ya-DAT-ta ki-mo-she-LIM BA-nu pe-lish-TIM u-ma-ZOT a-SI-ta LA-nu va-YO-mer la-HEM ka-a-SHER a-SU LI KEN a-SI-ti la-HEM
Exegesis
Samson’s response, introduced by vayomer {וַיֹּאמֶר | wayyōmer}, employs chiastic parallelism kaasher asu li ken asiti lahem {כַּאֲשֶׁר עָשׂוּ לִי כֵּן עָשִׂיתִי לָהֶם | ka-ʾăšer ʿāšû lī kên ʿāśîtî lā-hem}, underscoring reciprocal retribution.
Root and etymology
א־שׁ
“fire”
In context — Judges 15:11
Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cleft of the rock at Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are ruling over us? What is this that you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”
About this coordinate
Judges 15:11:21 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 21 of Judges 15:11, so the Hebrew word כַּאֲשֶׁר֙ (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.15.11.W21, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.15.11.W21.S1) and character.