Leviticus 20:6:2Lev.20.6.W2TAB

אֲשֶׁ֨ר

asher

who

Transliteration
a-SHER
Extended
ah-SHEHR
IPA
/ʔă.ˈʃɛr/

Meaning by language

English
who

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Result
אֲ + שֶׁ֨ר
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 tif-NEH el-ha-O-vot

  3. clause

    ve-ha-NE-fesh a-SHER tif-NEH el-ha-O-vot ve-el-ha-YID-deh-o-NEEM liz-NOT a-kha-REE-hem

  4. sentence

    ve-ha-NE-fesh a-SHER tif-NEH el-ha-O-vot ve-el-ha-YID-deh-o-NEEM liz-NOT a-kha-REE-hem ve-na-ta-TI et-pa-NAI ba-NE-fesh ha-HI ve-hiKH-ra-TI o-TO mi-KE-rev am-MO

Exegesis

The verse begins with ve-hannefesh {וְהַנֶּ֗פֶשׁ | wə-han-nĕ-p̄eš} ‘the soul’, serving as the legal subject, followed by the relative clause introduced by asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾă-šer} ‘who’ and the imperfect tipneh {תִּפְנֶה | tip-p̄ə-nēh} ‘turns’ indicating potential action.

In contextLeviticus 20:6

And the soul who turns to the mediums and the spiritists, to prostitute themselves after them, I will set my face against that soul and will cut it off from the midst of its people.

About this coordinate

Leviticus 20:6:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Leviticus 20:6, 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.20.6.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.20.6.W2.S1) and character.