Leviticus 17:3:5Lev.17.3.W5TAB
אֲשֶׁ֨ר
asher
“who”
- Transliteration
- a-SHER
- Extended
- ah-SHEHR
- IPA
- /ʔaˈʃɛr/
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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The word
Word in context
- word
a-SHER
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER yish-KHAT
- clause
EESH EESH mi-BEIT yis-ra-EL a-SHER yish-KHAT SHOR o-KE-sev o-EZ ba-ma-kha-NEH
- sentence
EESH EESH mi-BEIT yis-ra-EL a-SHER yish-KHAT SHOR o-KE-sev o-EZ ba-ma-kha-NEH O a-SHER yish-KHAT mi-KHUTS la-ma-kha-NEH
Exegesis
The relative pronoun asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾă-šer} introduces two parallel actions governed by yishchat {יִשְׁחַט | yiš-ḥaṭ} ‘he slaughters,’ first within the prepositional phrase ba-machaneh {בַּמַּחֲנֶה | ba-maḥ-ă-nêh} ‘in the camp’ and then within mi-chuts la-machaneh {מִחוּץ לַמַּחֲנֶה | mi-ḥûṣ la-maḥ-ă-nêh} ‘from outside to the camp.’
In context — Leviticus 17:3
Any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, a sheep, or a goat in the camp , or who slaughters one outside the camp.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 17:3:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Leviticus 17:3, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶׁ֨ר (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 Lev.17.3.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.17.3.W5.S1) and character.