Judges 20:42:9Judg.20.42.W9TAB
וַאֲשֶׁר֙
vaasher
“and those who”
- Transliteration
- va-a-SHER
- Extended
- vah-ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /vaʔăˈʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- and those who
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Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| 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
va-a-SHER
- clause
va-a-SHER me-he-rim mash-khi-TIM o-TO be-to-KHO
- sentence
va-yif-NU lif-NEI ISH yis-ra-EL el-DE-rekh ha-mid-BAR ve-ha-mil-kha-MA hid-bi-ka-TE-hu va-a-SHER me-he-rim mash-khi-TIM o-TO be-to-KHO
Exegesis
The relative clause introduced by vaasher {וַאֲשֶׁר | wa-ʾăšer} ‘and those who’ links to the participle mashchitim {מַשְׁחִיתִים | mašḥîṯîm} ‘destroying’, which conveys sustained lethal action by fighters from the cities, with the locative betokho {בְּתוֹכֽוֹ | bᵊṯôḵô} ‘in his midst’ highlighting the internal threat. The coordinated structure of turning, overtaking, and destroying underscores the completeness of Israel’s counterstrike.
Root and etymology
ʼ-šaleph–shin
“fire, burning”
In context — Judges 20:42
And they turned before the men of Israel toward the road to the wilderness, and the battle overtook them, and those who came from the cities were destroying them in their midst.
About this coordinate
Judges 20:42:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Judges 20:42, so the Hebrew word וַאֲשֶׁר֙ (vaasher) 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.20.42.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.20.42.W9.S1) and character.