Judges 18:28:11Judg.18.28.W11TAB

אֲשֶׁ֣ר

asher

which

Transliteration
a-SHER
Extended
ah-SHEHR
IPA
/ʔăˈʃɛr/

Meaning by language

English
which

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Result
אֲ + שֶׁ֣ר
a + sher
asher

Alphabet Analysis

Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Hateph Patachreduced 'ah'
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    a-SHER

  2. phraseyour reading level

    a-SHER le-VET-re-KHOV

  3. clause

    ve-EN ma-TSIL KI re-kho-KA-HI mi-tsi-DON ve-da-VAR EN-la-HEM im-A-dam ve-HI ba-E-meq a-SHER le-VET-re-KHOV

  4. sentence

    ve-EN ma-TSIL KI re-kho-KA-HI mi-tsi-DON ve-da-VAR EN-la-HEM im-A-dam ve-HI ba-E-meq a-SHER le-VET-re-KHOV va-yiv-NU et-ha-IR va-yesh-VU VA

Exegesis

The relative clause introduced by asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʼă-šer} ‘which’ modifies the locative ba-emek {בָּעֵ֖מֶק | bā-ʿê-meq} ‘in the valley’, specifying its proximity to Beth Rehob.

In contextJudges 18:28

There was no rescuer , because it was far from Sidon and they had no business with any man. It was in the valley near Beth Rehob. Afterward they rebuilt the city and lived there.

About this coordinate

Judges 18:28:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Judges 18:28, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁ֣ר (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.18.28.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.18.28.W11.S1) and character.