Judges 20:13:5Judg.20.13.W5TAB
אֲשֶׁ֤ר
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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Word in context
- word
a-SHER
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER bag-giv-A
- clause
ve-a-TA te-NU et-ha-a-na-SHIM be-NE-vli-YA-al a-SHER bag-giv-A u-ne-mi-TEM u-ne-va-a-RA ra-A mi-yis-ra-EL
- sentence
ve-a-TA te-NU et-ha-a-na-SHIM be-NE-vli-YA-al a-SHER bag-giv-A u-ne-mi-TEM u-ne-va-a-RA ra-A mi-yis-ra-EL ve-LO a-VU ve-NE bin-ya-MIN lish-mo-A be-KOL a-khe-HEM be-NE-yis-ra-EL
Exegesis
The construct expression bə-nê-bə-liyyāʿal {בְּנֵי־בְלִיַּעַל | bə-nê-bə-liyyāʿal} ‘sons of worthlessness’ delivers a moral judgment, and the relative pronoun ʾăšer {אֲשֶׁר | ʾăšer} introduces the locative clause ba-gibbāh {בַּגִּבְעָה | ba-gibbāh} ‘in Gibeah’.
Root and etymology
ʼ-šaleph–shin
“fire, burning”
In context — Judges 20:13
And now, give the men, sons of worthlessness, who are in Gibeah, so that we may put them to death and purge evil from Israel. But the sons of Benjamin were not willing to listen to the voice of their brothers, the sons of Israel.
About this coordinate
Judges 20:13:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Judges 20:13, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁ֤ר (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.20.13.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.20.13.W5.S1) and character.