Judges 21:23:8Judg.21.23.W8TAB

אֲשֶׁ֣ר

asher

whom or which

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

Meaning by language

English
whom or 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 ga-ZA-lu

  3. clause

    va-ya-a-SU-KHEN be-NEI bin-ya-MIN va-yis-E-U na-SHIM le-mis-pa-RAM min-ha-me-kho-le-LOT a-SHER ga-ZA-lu

  4. sentence

    va-ya-a-SU-KHEN be-NEI bin-ya-MIN va-yis-E-U na-SHIM le-mis-pa-RAM min-ha-me-kho-le-LOT a-SHER ga-ZA-lu va-YE-le-khu va-ya-SHU-vu el-na-kha-la-TAM va-yiv-NU et-he-a-RIM va-YE-she-vu ba-HEM

Exegesis

The source expression min-hammĕḥollelôt ’ăšer gāzālû {מִן־הַמְּחֹלְל֖וֹת אֲשֶׁר גָּזָ֑לוּ | min-ham-me-ḥol-lōṯ ’ă-šer gā-zā-lû} specifies origin with a relative clause.

In contextJudges 21:23

So the sons of Benjamin took women according to their number from the dancers whom they had captured, and then they returned to their inheritance . They rebuilt the cities and settled in them.

About this coordinate

Judges 21:23:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Judges 21:23, 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.21.23.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.21.23.W8.S1) and character.